Atlas of Tissue Doppler Echocardiography - TDE - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3798510202 ISBN 13: 9783798510203

Publisher: Steinkopff Darmstadt, 1995

Synopsis

This is the first book to present an overview of the exciting new cardiac imaging technique of tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE). In order to understand the background of this technique, it is necessary to compare the physical properties of blood, which reflects ultrasound poorly but moves with high velocity (up to 150 cm/s) with those of the myocar- dium, which reflects ultrasound strongly but moves with low velocity (less than 10 cm/s). In tissue Doppler imaging, existing Doppler technology has been modified to bypass the high-pass filter and enhance calculation of low velocities, thus enabling selective visualization of the myocardium rather than of the blood. Because the color Doppler tissue images are super- imposed on the conventional two-dimensional ultrasound images, this technique is known as TDE. Following a brief introduction, the history of ultrasound and Doppler imaging is presented. It is now about 150 years since the death of Christian Doppler, who described the "Doppler" effect, and more than 100 years since Pierre Curie discovered the piezoelectric effects of crystals. TDE was developed by Nobuo Yamazaki and Yoshitaka Mine at the Medi- cal Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Corporation, Tochigi, Japan. En- gineers involved in the development of the technique have provided important technical information, which the reader will find an invaluable background to potential applications ofTDE.

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Review

Pressestimmen: "Erbel und Mitarbeiter haben einen Atlas vorgelegt, der einzigartig ist und neue Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich Textur, Morphologie und Funktion des Herzmuskels aufzeigt. ... Diese neue Methode ermöglicht somit neue diagnostische Ansätze, aber auch neue Möglichkeiten zur Therapiekontrolle.
Wenngleich das Buch für den Experten gedacht ist, wird auch der Arzt, der nicht Kardiologe ist, diesen Atlas mit Muße und Gewinn studieren können."
(Deutsches Ärzteblatt)

Synopsis

Ultrasound is an established technique for studying cardiac structure and function. Tissue doppler echocardiography (TDE) is a new method with potential advantages in the real-time assessment of myocardial contractility. Tissue velocity is measured by pulsed doppler and displayed in colour-coded fashion. As a consequence, a new window to detect wall motion abnormalities has been opened. This atlas offers, with text and extensive colour figures, a comprehensive review of the background and emerging clinical applications of tissue doppler echocardiography. It is directed towards physicians and sonographers involved in echocardiography, but should also be of benefit to clinicians who have an interest in non-invasive diagnostic methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Steinkopff Darmstadt
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3798510202
• ISBN 13: 9783798510203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178
• Editor: Erbel Raimund, Nesser H. J., Drozdz J.