Echocardiography provides noninvasive, real-time, diagnostic cardiac anatomic imaging (see Chapter 1 ) and motion and flow information. In the present context, the motion and flow are myocardial motion of contraction and relaxation and the resulting flow of blood, respectively. Motion…
Echocardiography is diagnostic imaging with ultrasound (sonography) of the heart. Sonography comes from the Latin sonus (sound) and the Greek graphein (to write). Diagnostic sonography is medical, real-time, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) anatomic, motion, and flow imaging using ultrasound.…
Objectives On completion of this chapter, you should be able to: List ways in which sonographic gray-scale images can present anatomic structures incorrectly List ways in which spectral and color Doppler displays can present motion and flow information incorrectly Describe…