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Today the major application of echocardiography techniques has been a direct diagnostic translation of motional, geometrical and blood velocity parameters to cardiac abnormalities. It can be stated that during the last decade many diagnoses that might be derived from these parameters have been described. In the above quoted ‘conventional’ echo methods the echo image is based on a fixed setting for the sound velocity and an overall compensation for attenuation as function of depth. With conventional echography small local changes in sound velocity, attenuation and/or backscatter are neglected in the way the data is handled.
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Bom, N., Rijsterborgh, H., Lancée, C.T., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (1991). Possibilities of ultrasonic tissue identification in the heart. In: Iliceto, S., Rizzon, P., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (eds) Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0611-2_21
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