TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Foreword A1 - Mathew, Joseph P. A1 - Ayoub, Chakib M. A1 - Nicoara, Alina A1 - Swaminathan, Madhav Y1 - 2018 N1 - T2 - Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e AB - Over the past 60 years, echocardiography has become the most important and widely used imaging modality in cardiovascular medicine. And even though the core technology still relies on the same fundamental physical properties of reflected waves, the variety of innovations and applications that have evolved to enable sophisticated imaging of cardiac structure and function in three-dimensional space is astonishing. The underlying principles are simple enough: ultrasound waves are sent from a transducer, then the reflected waves are analyzed in two domains: a time-intensity domain (to characterize the structure) and a frequency-shift domain (to assess the speed of motion). With modern transducer technology and computer processing speeds, echo images have greater spatial and temporal resolution than ever, and the usefulness of echo across all forms of cardiovascular disease is without parallel. One cannot be a cardiovascular specialist without an in-depth knowledge of echocardiography. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/24 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158509161 ER -