An omnidirectional M-mode echocardiography system and its clinical application.
This paper introduces the omnidirectional M-mode echocardiography (OME), which can detect dynamic information from sequential echocardiography images. The method for detecting dynamic information is based on the rebuilding of their "gray (position)-time" function [Qiang L, Wenjing J, Li Z. A method for detecting dynamic information of sequential images--omnidirectional gray-time waveform and its applications in echocardiography images. In: Proceedings of CISST' 2001. 2001. p. 760-3; Qiang L, Wenjing J, Xiuzhi Y. A method for mining data of sequetial images-rebuilding of gray (position)-time function on arbitrary direction lines. In: Proceeding of CISST' 2002, vol. 3-6. 2002; Qiang L, Li Z, Wenjing J. The realization of omnidirectional gray-time waveform system and its application on echocardiography. J Electron Meas Instrum, 2002;16(1):70-5] on direction lines. The system can obtain motion and inherent dynamic information of a certain part of the cardiac structure at a certain moment. The system also shows a group of omnidirectional M-mode echocardiography images with synchronous ECG, which is rebuilt from 2D echocardiography images. The ECG supplies a standard time for the omnidirectional M-mode echocardiography images. The system has been applied in clinical application for 3 years and the results are good.
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Qiang
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Biomedical Engineering Institute, Fuzhou University, Fujian, Fuzhou 350002, China.
Wu
Wenji
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Huang
Liqin
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Lin
Yonghua
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D000465:Algorithms; D016477:Artifacts; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009068:Movement; D014584:User-Computer Interface