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A New Angled Transducer for Intraoperative Epicardial Echocardiography
Author(s) -
MATSUWAKA RYOUSUKE,
MATSUDA HIKARU,
NAKANO SUSUMU,
HIRATA NOBUAKI,
NISHIMURA MOTONOBU,
MITSUNO MASATAKA,
KAWASHIMA YASUNARU
Publication year - 1991
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.1540-8175.1991.tb01197.x
Subject(s) - transducer , operability , medicine , radiology , volume (thermodynamics) , nuclear medicine , acoustics , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , reliability engineering
We tested a new angled transducer developed for intraoperative epicardial echocardiography in 42 patients. This small transducer, 70 × 20 × 15 mm in size, demonstrated superior operability and provided adequate two‐ or four‐chamber imaging from the apical approach, which may lead to high‐quality assessment with two‐dimensional Doppler flow imaging. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 8, May 1991)