title: Cardiac ultrasound. Progress and prospects.
abstract: Echocardiography is unique in its role as both a routine, mature technology and an expanding, innovative field. For the foreseeable future, ultrasound will remain one of the most important methods of diagnostic cardiac imaging.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Skorton
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Vandenberg
mesh_terms: D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000639:trends*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional