Abstract
Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography appeared in the clinical arena nearly a decade ago. From the beginning, it was clear that this new technology would be a milestone in the “evolution” of ultrasounds. Indeed, this technique has the following unique peculiarities: it generates “live” images, in other words it shows the motion of a given structure in three-dimensions at the same moment in which the motion occurs; three-dimensional images appear almost identical to the anatomic specimens; and the operator can rotate and angulate the image on and off line, in any direction and illustrate the cardiac structures from a countless number of perspectives. Moreover, as in a kind of “electronic” dissection, the operator can crop, again on- and offline, the image, deleting redundant echoes and discovering hidden structures.
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Faletra, F.F., Murzilli, R., Leo, L.A., Ho, S.Y. (2018). Cardiac Anatomy by Three-Dimensional Echocardiography. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71617-6_4
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