3D Echocardiography

Introduction to 3D Echocardiography

Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has a long history with the first 3D-reconstruction of 2D images described in 1974 by Dekker et al. With their approach, the patient was scanned with a transducer attached to a mechanical arm that fed quadrant data to a computer mainframe. However, equipment such as this was impractical and images were unsuitable for clinical use. Over the subsequent deca...

3D Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

Live 3D echocardiography: a replacement for traditional 2D echocardiography?

OBJECTIVE We describe the development of real-time 3D imaging and review the previously used versions of 3D echocardiography so that the reader will appreciate why current developments truly do represent a quantum leap in the technology. CONCLUSION Three-dimensional echocardiography has now been shown to have several advantages over 2D echocardiography, particularly for volume measurements, v...

3D Echocardiography of the LV and RV

The evaluation of the global and regional left ventricular (LV) function is an essential part of a routine perioperative TEE-examination. To date, the assessment of the LV ejection fraction (EF) is mainly performed by “eye-balling”, which relies on the echocardiographer’s experience and ability to visually integrate spatial information. Further limitations of 2D-TEE assessment of the LV EF are ...

Principles and Physics of 3D Echocardiography

Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has a long history with the first 3D-reconstruction of 2D images described in 1974 by Dekker et al. With their approach, the patient was scanned with a transducer attached to a mechanical arm that fed quadrant data to a computer mainframe. However, equipment such as this was impractical and images were unsuitable for clinical use. Over the subsequent deca...