Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: Specific Indications and Incremental Value over Traditional Echocardiogaphy

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

Real-time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.

BACKGROUND Complex anatomy of intra-cardiac structures requires spatial orientation of image in three dimensions for better understanding and enhanced image interpretation. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of the emerging 'real-time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography' technique for comprehensive assessment of cardiac anatomy, physiology, pathomorphology and pathophysiolog...

Feasibility study for real time three dimensional Doppler intracardiac echocardiography.

Using catheter-mounted two-dimensional array transducers, we have obtained real-time three-dimensional color flow and spectral Doppler ultrasound images in phantoms. We have constructed several transducers operating at 5 MHz with up to 137 channels inside a 12 French catheter lumen. The transducer configuration may be side scanning or beveled with respect to the long axis of the catheter lumen....

Left ventricular ejection fraction by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Despite a staggering technical progress in echocardiography, in daily clinical practice assessment of left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) is still often done in a rather inaccurate two-dimensional (2D) manner. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) provides a more representative realistic view of LV volumes, thereby being the Necker cube for the naive realism of 2D method...

Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: Applications for cardiac resynchronization therapy

number 158 . 2. Ajmone Marsan N, Bleeker GB, Ypenburg C, Van Bommel RJ, Delgado V, Borleffs CJW, Holman ER, Van Der Wall EE, Schalij MJ, Bax JJ. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography as a novel approach to assess left ventricular and Left Atrium reverse remodeling and to predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Abstract