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Live 3D echocardiography: a replacement for traditional 2D echocardiography?

Houck RC, Cooke JE, Gill EA

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359748, 329 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104-2599, USA.

OBJECTIVE: We describe the development of real-time 3D imaging and review the previously used versions of 3D echocardiography so that the reader will appreciate why current developments truly do represent a quantum leap in the technology. CONCLUSION: Three-dimensional echocardiography has now been shown to have several advantages over 2D echocardiography, particularly for volume measurements, visualization of septal defects, and whole-valve evaluation. Given these data, it is clear that 3D echocardiography is here to stay and soon will become part of routine echocardiographic examinations.

Published 20 September 2006 in AJR Am J Roentgenol, 187(4): 1092-106.
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