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Practical Approach to a Digital Echocardiographic Laboratory
Author(s) -
FEIGENBAUM HARVEY
Publication year - 1997
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.1540-8175.1997.tb00694.x
Subject(s) - limiting , computer science , digital storage , transmission (telecommunications) , data compression , computer graphics (images) , digital data , computer data storage , computer hardware , data transmission , computer vision , telecommunications , engineering , mechanical engineering
Routine digital storage of echocardiograms offers considerable advantages over video tape, including random access to images within a study, side‐by‐side comparison with prior studies, and duplication and transmission of images without degradation. The massive storage requirements for complete echo studies has discouraged many laboratories from adopting digital storage, but through judicious use of “clinical compression” routine digital echocardiography can be a reality today. By limiting storage to quad screen displays of images, it is possible to store the most relevant data from an examination in just a few megabytes.