کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4233362 | 1282735 | 2009 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
![عکس صفحه اول مقاله: Real Time Transthoracic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: How Should it be Applied in the Clinical Setting? Real Time Transthoracic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography: How Should it be Applied in the Clinical Setting?](/preview/png/4233362.png)
Three dimensional (3D) echocardiography has the potential to provide better anatomic and functional details of cardiac structure and function compared with two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography. Prior 3D techniques used a series of 2D images to reconstruct a 3D dataset. However, this method was greatly limited for widespread clinical application due to long acquisition times, spatial and temporal alignment issues and significant postprocessing times. Real-time three dimensional (RT3D) echocardiography initially developed in the 1990s overcame some of these limitations and achieved a technical breakthrough by using a fully sampled matrix phased array probe. This new generation of RT3D echocar-diography provides excellent image quality, makes the real-time volumetric imaging possible and can measure the heart in arbitrary orientations without geometric assumption and image plane positioning. Presently, RT3D echocardiography appears to evolve from a time-consuming research tool to a clinically applicable diagnostic technique, providing rapid, accurate and supplementary information to conventional 2D echocardiography. The following is a review of the current clinical applications for RT3D echocardiography and where it may be optimally applied in the clinical setting.
Journal: Journal of Medical Ultrasound - Volume 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 63-70