E. Gill – Atlas of 3D Echocardiography

Автор: E. Gill
Название книги: Atlas of 3D Echocardiography
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 409
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has arguably been the most significant development
for echocardiography in the past two decades and has been very important for the
development of cardiology in general. When I was a medical resident in the late 1980s,
echocardiography inspired me to pursue a fellowship in cardiology. The reason was clear:
no technology at that time allowed such complete evaluation of cardiac structure and function
and displayed it in such an exquisite fashion. Fast forward to today, and this opinion
hasn’t changed; echocardiography never fails to advance its technology and organize it in
such an eye-pleasing fashion. 3D echocardiography is the flagship example. When the first
versions of 3D echocardiography began to enter the clinical cardiology market in the early
1990s, it was clear to me that I wanted this technology for our echocardiography laboratory.
Since the early gated transthoracic 3D transesophageal echocardiography acquisition in
1995 and on to real-time transthoracic 3D in 2002 and real-time transesophageal 3D
in 2007, I have been particularly privileged to help with the development and feedback
of this technology and ultimately to institute it in everyday clinical use. Atlas of 3D
Echocardiography is the culmination of years of work applying 3D technology to thousands
of interesting clinical cases. I believe this atlas will enable readers to greatly enhance their
understanding and appreciation of 3D echocardiography.