Publisher's Synopsis
This work presents an important advance in cardiac ultrasound techniques. For the first time, examination of intracardiac flow dynamics in three dimensions has been made possible.
The study of intracardiac blood flow in patients with heart disease has always been a challenging task for the modern cardiologist. The advent of color Doppler substantially enhances the clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Three–Dimensional Color Doppler discloses the enormous diagnostic potential of color Doppler flow imaging technique, and provides the cardiologist with a powerful new tool for studying and assessing cardiac flow disturbances.
Three–dimensional Doppler enhances the diagnostic value of color Doppler by providing unique information about the actual extension, direction, origin, and size of intracardiac flow. In addition, new blood flow patterns, not previously described, can be observed and studied.
This atlas of intracardiac flow represents an indispensable learning and teaching tool, not only for the echocardiologist, but also for the clinical cardiologist and for everyone involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with heart disease.
