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Digital two-dimensional echocardiography

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Digital Cardiac Imaging

Abstract

Over the past two decades, echocardiography has emerged as an essential diagnostic tool in clinical cardiology. This is related to the fact that it is entirely noninvasive, can be readily performed at the bedside, and can provide accurate and reproducible information at no known risk to the patient. M-mode echocardiography was initially used to provide a unidimensional view of the heart, and although it contributed to our knowledge of many important physiologic and pathophysiologic relationships, it remains limited in capability because of the lack of spatial orientation. The development of two-dimensional echocardiography in the early 1970’s has allowed real-time, tomographic imaging of several planes through the heart. The speed of developments in the electronic industry has resulted in dramatic improvements in transducer design and instrumentation over the past decade which has contributed to major improvements in this cardiac imaging modality so that good spatial and temporal resolution are now possible.

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Buda, A.J., Delp, E.J. (1985). Digital two-dimensional echocardiography. In: Buda, A.J., Delp, E.J. (eds) Digital Cardiac Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4996-6_11

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