Three-Dimensional Echocardiography - Principles and Promises

[摘要] Three-dimensional echocardiography facilitates spatial recognition of intracardiac structures, potentially enhancing diagnostic confidence of conventional echocardiography. In addition, 3D-echocardiography allows exact computation of cardiac volumes and could serve as a teaching tool in cardiology. Over the last decade, significant developments in 3D-echocardiography have been made. Refinements in instrumentation, data acquisition, post processing and computation speed together with improvements in 2D-image quality could now allow three-dimensional echocardiography to play an important role in clinical echocardiography. This review focuses on the methodology, current status, potential clinical applications and future direction of 3D-echocardiography.

[学科分类] 心脏病和心血管学

[关键词] Dreidimensional;Echokardiographie;Echtzeit-3-D-Echokardiographie;3-dimensional;echocardiography;real time 3D-echocardiography