Tag: Echocardiography
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What is Echocardiography?
Echocardiography is a diagnostic technique that employs ultrasound to produce an image of the beating heart in real time. A piezoelectric transducer element is used to emit short bursts of high frequency, low intensity sound through the chest wall to the heart and then detect the reflections of this sound as it returns from the…
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The Application of Echocardiography in Cardiovascular Diagnosis
The key application of ultrasound in cardiovascular diagnosis is echocardiogram. It utilizes M-scan technique in the imaging. In the echocardiogram, the movements of the valves and other structures of the heart are displayed as a function of time. The display also includes an electrocardiogram to provide more information on the heart. From the echocardiogram, the…