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Echocardiography and the Evolution of Cardiac Imaging
Author(s) -
SKORTON DAVID J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1987.tb01332.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiac imaging , perspective (graphical) , myocardial perfusion imaging , medical imaging , perfusion scanning , cardiac function curve , intensive care medicine , medical physics , radiology , cardiology , perfusion , computer science , heart failure , artificial intelligence
Summary Imaging techniques are among the most commonly used diagnostic approaches to patients with heart and vascular diseases. Recently, sophisticated new methods of imaging the heart, great vessels, and pulmonary and peripheral vasculature have rapidly evolved. This evolution has occurred due to technological developments, research imperatives, and clinical needs. Current cardiac imaging methods give superb information on cardiac structure and function. The newer approaches to imaging promise to supply additional information on myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and tissue characteristics. The explosion of research and development in cardiac imaging gives the clinician and investigator a wealth of choices for evaluation of the heart. This wide array of choices requires that practicing physicians and echocardiogra‐phers develop a broad perspective on the relative efficacy, costs, and drawbacks associated with each of the diagnostic imaging procedures.