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Determination of Left Ventricular Volume, Ejection Fraction, and Myocardial Mass by Real‐Time Three‐Dimensional Echocardiography
Author(s) -
Qin Jian Xin,
Shiota Takahiro,
Thomas James D.
Publication year - 2000
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.1540-8175.2000.tb01237.x
Subject(s) - ejection fraction , medicine , cardiology , radiology , ventricular volume , nuclear medicine , heart failure
Reconstructed three‐dimensional ( 3‐D ) echocardiography is an accurate and reproducible method of assessing left ventricular ( LV ) functions. However, it has limitations for clinical study due to the requirement of complex computer and echocardiographic analysis systems, electrocardiographic/respiratory gating, and prolonged imaging times. Real‐time 3‐D echocardiography has a major advantage of conveniently visualizing the entire cardiac anatomy in three dimensions and of potentially accurately quantifying LV volumes, ejection fractions, and myocardial mass in patients even in the presence of an LV aneurysm. Although the image quality of the current real‐time i echocardiographic methods is not optimal, its widespread clinical application is possible because of the convenient and fast image acquisition. We review real‐time 3‐D echocardiographic image acquisition and quantitative analysis for the evaluation of LV function and LVmass.