Echocardiology: With Doppler Applications and Real Time Imaging

ISBN-13: 9789401011051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 360 str.

N. Bom

Opis

Echocardiology comprises all aspects of diagnostic application of ultrasound to cardiac patients. It is probably the fastest growing non-invasive technique today. Almost all progress in this young and exciting field has been the positive result of close co-operation between medical and technical scientists. This book contains a series of lectures held at Erasmus University Rotterdam in June 1977 and is divided in three sections: - clinical echocardiology, consisting of both an introduction to the basic principles as well as a wide variety of applications aimed at the clinically oriented reader. - Doppler methods, where in addition to its clinical applications also the engineering of new developments will be presented. - the two dimensional real-time imaging where many new techniques including com puter methods, holography and acousto-optical systems will be discussed. We hope that this book will stimulate communication between scientists of various disciplines and nationalities. N.Bom J. Roelandt P.G. Hugenholtz Rotterdam, June 1977 III Preface The last three decades have seen a remarkable advance in diagnostic instrument ation in diseases of the circulation. In the 1940's the only diagnostic aids were the electrocardiogram and simple X-ray. These were quickly followed by the cardiac ca theter, phonocardiography, radio isotope methods and angiocardiography. The de velopment of cardiac surgery provided the impetus to developing more accurate methods of diagnosis, preferably those that did not need invasion of the patient. The introduction of ultrasound has contributed towards this aim in the last few years."

Spis treści

Clinical Echocardiology.- The future of echocardiography as scanned by an outsider.- Principles of ultrasound in medical diagnosis.- Echocardiographic examination techniques.- Echocardiographic examination of the aortic root and aortic valve.- Right-sided heart valves.- Cross-sectional echocardiographic evaluation of the Atrioventricular valves in acquired and congenital heart disease.- Screening, population and sequential follow-up.- Echocardiologic Assessment in Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH).- Mitral valve prolapse.- A dual M-mode system for simultaneous time motion analysis of cardiac structures and evaluation of cardiac function: initial clinical applications.- Advantages of combined hemodynamic and ultrasonic studies in man.- Detection of incoordinate left ventricular contraction by echocardiography.- Cardiac anatomy in congenital heart disease.- Echocardiography in noncyanotic congenital heart disease.- Real-time Assessment of Fetal Dynamics.- Echocardiography in a general cardiologic practice.- Contrast echocardiology.- Echocardiographic assessment of cardiomyopathies.- Left ventricular wall motion in patients with W.P.W. syndrome studied by echocardiography.- Doppler instruments and applications.- Continuous wave and pulsed Doppler flowmeters — general introduction.- Pulsed Doppler echocardiography.- Applications of pulsed Doppler systems.- Aortic blood velocity measurement by transcutaneous aortovelography and its clinical applications.- Echo-Doppler systems; Applications for the detection of cardiovascular disorders.- A transcutaneous N-channel digital Doppler.- Two-dimensional real time imaging.- Real time systems for two-dimensional imaging — general introduction.- 2D imaging versus holography and 3D imaging.- Acoustical image reconstruction devices.- Mechanical sector scanners.- A dynamically focused multiscan system.- Phased array systems.- Data processing of time-motion information in Echocardiography.- Author index.