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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2012 Feb 16;38(4):670–680. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.12.025

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Molecular sonograms of carotid artery vessels. (a) Ultrasound imaging to detect the CD81 expression for the phenazine methosulfate (PMS)-stimulated vessels. (b) Ultrasound imaging to detect the CD81 expression for the non-stimulated vessels. Molecular imaging signal from attached ultrasound contrast agents (UCA) was color coded as green signals overlaid on gray-scale ultrasound image. There was a great enhancement in the ultrasound signal from the CD81-targeted UCA retained in the PMS-stimulated vessel wall, compared with the non-stimulated vessel wall. (c) Box plot of video intensity for the stimulated and non-stimulated carotid artery vessels. The selected contrast regions were marked with boxes.