3-Dimensional Echocardiography

Live 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography

Conclusions The use of 3D-MTEE imaging, which is feasible in most patients, provides superb imaging of native MVs, which makes this modality an excellent choice for MV surgical planning and guidance of percutaneous interventions. Optimal aortic and tricuspid valve imaging will depend on further technological developments. Fast acquisition and immediate online display will facilitate wider accep...

Clinical application of 3-dimensional echocardiography.

Three-dimensional echocardiography has emerged as a novel non-invasive imaging modality enabling the registration and analysis of volumetric datasets containing information on cardiac structure. This review describes the principles of the method, different acquisition modes and the display options in perspective of clinical applications. Emerging clinical applications are discussed, including i...

Segmentation of cardiac structures in 3-dimensional echocardiography

Cardiac ultrasound is a key component in modern cardiology, and is widely used to assess and quantify the heart’s anatomy and function. In the past two decades, real-time 3-dimensional ultrasound has emerged as a promising modality, allowing a more accurate appreciation of the heart’s complex geometry, compared to themore conventional 2dimensional ultrasound. However, the huge increases in info...

Real-Time 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography: Its Incremental Value over 2-Dimensional Echocardiography in Assessing Acute Mitral Regurgitation.

Three-dimensional echocardiography.

Over the past two to three decades echocardiography has come a considerable distance from the early M-mode machines, and has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in any cardiovascular department. It has long been proved to be safe and cost-effective, and its clinical versatility has steadily increased with the continued integration of newer techniques, such as two-dimensional and harmonic im...