Echocardiology

Clinical Echocardiology.- The future of echocardiography as scanned by an outsider.- Principles of ultrasound in medical diagnosis.- Echocardiographic examination techniques.- Echocardiographic examination of the aortic root and aortic valve.- Right-sided heart valves.- Cross-sectional echocardiographic evaluation of the Atrioventricular valves in acquired and congenital heart disease.- Screening, population and sequential follow-up.- Echocardiologic Assessment in Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy (ASH).- Mitral valve prolapse.- A dual M-mode system for simultaneous time motion analysis of cardiac structures and evaluation of cardiac function: initial clinical applications.- Advantages of combined hemodynamic and ultrasonic studies in man.- Detection of incoordinate left ventricular contraction by echocardiography.- Cardiac anatomy in congenital heart disease.- Echocardiography in noncyanotic congenital heart disease.- Real-time Assessment of Fetal Dynamics.- Echocardiography in a general cardiologic practice.- Contrast echocardiology.- Echocardiographic assessment of cardiomyopathies.- Left ventricular wall motion in patients with W.P.W. syndrome studied by echocardiography.- Doppler instruments and applications.- Continuous wave and pulsed Doppler flowmeters - general introduction.- Pulsed Doppler echocardiography.- Applications of pulsed Doppler systems.- Aortic blood velocity measurement by transcutaneous aortovelography and its clinical applications.- Echo-Doppler systems; Applications for the detection of cardiovascular disorders.- A transcutaneous N-channel digital Doppler.- Two-dimensional real time imaging.- Real time systems for two-dimensional imaging - general introduction.- 2D imaging versus holography and 3D imaging.- Acoustical image reconstruction devices.- Mechanical sector scanners.- A dynamically focused multiscan system.- Phased array systems.- Data processing of time-motion information in Echocardiography.- Author index.