RT Book, Section
A1 Mathew, Joseph P.
A1 Nicoara, Alina
A1 Ayoub, Chakib M.
A1 Swaminathan, Madhav
SR Print(0)
ID 1195099756
T1 Foreword
T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071830232
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195099756
RD 2024/04/18
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.