[Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography -- a further step in non-invasive three-dimensional cardiac imaging]

Orv Hetil. 2012 Oct 7;153(40):1570-7. doi: 10.1556/OH.2012.29466.
[Article in Hungarian]

Abstract

Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is a new cardiac imaging methodology, which allows three-dimensional non-invasive evaluation of the myocardial mechanics. The aim of this review is to present this new tool emphasizing its diagnostic potentials and demonstrating its limitations, as well.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Volume
  • Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional* / methods
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Ventricular Function, Left*
  • Ventricular Function, Right*