title: Technological advances to extend the echocardiographic imaging of pediatric patients.
abstract: Recent technological advances provide significant improvement in the quality of imaging for the acoustically challenged pediatric patient. Although tissue harmonics allow better imaging of the larger or postoperative patient, high-frequency transducers tend to optimize imaging in smaller patients. Miniaturization of transducers and ultrasound systems has lead to the innovative utilization of previously unavailable acoustic windows in a wider variety of settings. Each improvement advances the technology closer to the goal of providing optimal cardiac imaging in nearly all patients under virtually all circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Primary Children's Medical Center, University of Utah, 100 North Medical Center Drive, Suite 1500, Salt Lake City, UT 84113-1100, USA. PCLMINIC@ihc.com
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Minich
authors.forename: L Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Paul
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D008904:Miniaturization; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers; D014465:Ultrasonics