Echocardiography new technology

Author: Li Yue
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: This book comprehensively includes the latest technologies in the field of echocardiography over the past decade, including three-dimensional echocardiography (3D reconstruction technology and real-time 3D echocardiography), transesophageal echocardiography, echocardiography stress testing, Doppler myocardial imaging, contrast echocardiography (also known as myocardial contrast echocardiography), myocardial tissue characterization, color wall motion analysis technology, acoustic quantification technology, intracardiac echocardiography, anatomic M-mode echocardiography, color flow convergence technique, left ventricular diastolic function assessment, and fetal echocardiography, among others. It explains the fundamental knowledge of each new technology and introduces its latest advancements and trends. Additionally, to help readers better understand and master the indications and significance of echocardiography examinations, it also summarizes and translates the latest version of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Echocardiography Applications Guideline and other valuable practical materials. This book is suitable for echocardiography professionals, cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists, faculty and students of medical schools, as well as non-specialist clinicians.