title: [Update on cardiac imaging techniques. Echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and multidetector computed tomography].
abstract: This article contains a review of the most significant publications on non-invasive recent cardiac imaging techniques in 2005. The increasing importance of technological innovation in echocardiography is reflected in the sections on three dimensional echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, and myocardial deformation measurement techniques (i.e., strain echocardiography). The most important developments affecting cardiology in the techniques of magnetic resonance imaging and multidetector computed tomography are also summarized. This review ends with a detailed description of the contributions made by imaging techniques to the diagnosis of aortic disease.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, España. cpare@clinic.ub.es
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Paré-Bardera
authors.forename: Río
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Torres
authors.forename: Pastora
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallego García de Vinuesa
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Velasco del Castillo
mesh_terms: D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D025401:Echocardiography, Stress; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed