As with so many important discoveries in science, the significant improvements in echocardiographic image quality generated by second harmonic imaging were discovered almost by chance. Sound signals, including ultrasound transmitted through tissue, usually contain harmonics. These are additional frequencies, at multiples of the main frequency (called the fundamental). Therefore, second harmonic...

As with so many important discoveries in science, the significant improvements in echocardiographic image quality generated by second harmonic imaging were discovered almost by chance. Sound signals, including ultrasound transmitted through tissue, usually contain harmonics. These are additional frequencies, at multiples of the main frequency (called the fundamental). Therefore, second harmonic...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate a standardized ultrasonography (US) algorithm for the visualization of pathologic para-aortic tissue in retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-five patients with lumbar RPF of typical extent, as determined by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging, were included. Examinations were conducted using standardized abdominal US with axial sections ob...

conclusions large-scale studies on the healthy black african population could assess the relationship between diastolic dyssynchrony and changes in myocardial performance related to racial differences. results the frequency of some dyssynchrony markers was similar to that of other studies. the difference between maximal time-to-peak systolic velocity and minimal time-to-peak systolic velocity w...