Echocardiology: with Doppler applications and Real time imaging

✍ Scribed by N. Bom (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The future of echocardiography as scanned by an outsider....Pages 3-6
Principles of ultrasound in medical diagnosis....Pages 7-14
Echocardiographic examination techniques....Pages 15-22
Echocardiographic examination of the aortic root and aortic valve....Pages 23-39
Right-sided heart valves....Pages 41-49
Cross-sectional echocardiographic evaluation of the Atrioventricular valves in Acquired and congenital heart disease....Pages 51-60
Screening, population and sequential follow-up studies by echocardiography....Pages 61-65
Echocardiologic Assessment in Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH)....Pages 67-71
Mitral valve prolapse....Pages 73-81
A dual M-mode system for simultaneous time motion analyses of cardiac structures and evaluation of cardiac function: initial clinical applications....Pages 83-93
Advantages of combined hemodynamic and ultrasonic studies in man....Pages 95-103
Detection of incoordinate left ventricular contraction by echocardiography....Pages 105-112
Cardiac anatomy in congenital heart disease....Pages 113-122
Echocardiography in noncyanotic congenital heart disease....Pages 123-133
Real-time Assessment of Fetal Dynamics....Pages 135-140
Echocardiography in a general cardiologic practice Its practicality and diagnostic usefulness....Pages 141-146
Contrast echocardiology....Pages 147-158
Echocardiographic assessment of cardiomyopathies....Pages 159-173
Left ventricular wall motion in patients with W.P.W. syndrome studied by echocardiography....Pages 175-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Continuous wave and pulsed Doppler flowmeters — a general introduction....Pages 189-205
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Pulsed Doppler echocardiography....Pages 207-221
Applications of pulsed Doppler systems....Pages 223-231
Aortic blood velocity measurement by transcutaneous aortovelography and its clinical applications....Pages 233-243
Echo-Doppler systems Applications for the detection of cardiovascular disorders....Pages 245-256
A transcutaneous N-channel digital Doppler....Pages 257-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Real time systems for two dimensional imaging. General introduction....Pages 269-281
2D imaging versus holography and 3D imaging....Pages 283-297
Acoustical image reconstruction devices....Pages 299-304
Mechanical sector scanners....Pages 305-311
A dynamically focused multiscan system....Pages 313-323
Phased array systems....Pages 325-334
Data processing of time-motion information in Echocardiography....Pages 335-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-360

✦ Subjects

Cardiology