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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasonics. 2017 Nov 23;84:329–340. doi: 10.1016/j.ultras.2017.11.013

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Endocardial borders are not well visualized without contrast (top left). Contrast microbubbles opacify the left ventricle improving delineation of endocardial borders (top right). A papillary muscle (white arrow), a normal intracardiac structure, is outlined by the contrast. Contrast enables clear visualization of an apical thrombus (arrow; bottom left) and apical tumor (bottom right). The presence of a vascular channel and enhancement with contrast help to differentiate apical tumor from apical thrombus.