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Echocardiography and Contrast Echocardiography

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In 1953, Dr. Helmut Hertz of Sweden together with Dr. Inge Edler began to use a commercial ultrasonoscope to examine the heart, thus starting the era of clinical echocardiography [1].

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  1. The Brody School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, East Carolina University, 28858-4354, Greenville, NC, USA

    Assad Movahed, Firas A. Ghanem & Ishtiaque H. Mohiuddin

  2. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, 130 East 77th Street, 9th Floor, 10021, New York, NY, USA

    Jaffar Ali Raza

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  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, St. Thomas Street, SE1 9RT, London, UK

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Movahed, A., Ghanem, F., Raza, J., Mohiuddin, I. (2009). Echocardiography and Contrast Echocardiography. In: Movahed, A., Gnanasegaran, G., Buscombe, J., Hall, M. (eds) Integrating Cardiology for Nuclear Medicine Physicians. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78674-0_10

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