title: [Three-dimensional echography: cardiovascular applications].
abstract: Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography is currently used in a standard echocardiographic examination. Volume-rendered images better identify and locate anatomic structures and improve our comprehensive approach to various heart diseases. The assessment of mitral valve disease and congenital cardiopathies and the measurement of left ventricular mass, volume, and ejection fraction are the three main applications of three-dimensional echocardiography. Three-dimensional vascular imaging is an emerging and promising application of three-dimensional echography. The near future of three-dimensional echography requires the integration of all modalities of conventional echography in three dimensional probes, a higher image resolution compared to the current situation, as well as the development of real-time three-dimensional probes dedicated to transesophageal cardiac or vascular examination.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles Cardio-vasculaires, Hôpital Cardiologique, CHRU, Boulevard du Pr. J. Leclercq, 59037 Lille Cedex. thletourneau@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Le Tourneau
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Polge
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gautier
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Deklunder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002404:Catheterization; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008945:Mitral Valve Prolapse / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D013318:Stroke Volume