title: Dobutamine stress MRI versus threedimensional contrast echocardiography: It's all Black and White.
abstract: Dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging is considered the superior stress modality to detect wall motion abnormalities. In this report we demonstrate the strengths of a newly developed stress modality: dobutamine stress contrastenhanced real-time three-dimensional echocardiography. This stress modality may become a competitor of stress magnetic resonance imaging allowing fast acquisition and an unlimited number of left ventricular cross sections. Unfortunately, at the moment adequate imaging with stress realtime three-dimensional echocardiography is only possible in a minority of cardiac patients. (Neth Heart J 2008;16:217-8.).
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and 2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Centre, Medical Faculty, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nemes
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Geleijnse
authors.forename: R-J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: van Geuns
authors.forename: O I I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Soliman
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Vletter
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Krenning
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ten Cate