title: Doppler echocardiography. II. Color Doppler imaging.
abstract: Color Doppler imaging (CDI) is a sophisticated form of ultrasound technology that overlays blood flow and velocity information onto a B-mode, two-dimensional, gray-scale image. This imaging technique--also called color Doppler echocardiography, color-coded Doppler, Doppler color-flow imaging, and color-flow imaging--is a type of pulsed-wave Doppler echocardiography. Because the anatomical site of received Doppler-shift information can be readily determined, CDI is useful for documenting normal blood flow patterns and screening the heart and great vessels for areas of abnormal flow.
authors: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Bonagura
authors: M W
authors: MW
authors: Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004285:Dogs; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000662:veterinary*; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000662:veterinary*