Thomas Buck, Andreas Franke,
Mark J. Monaghan (Editors)

2011

Real-time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography, which became commercially available in 2002, is the most recent, major advancement in echocardiography. Providing direct viewing of 3D cardiac surfaces during live scanning, it adds fundamentally new information to the echocardiographic assessment of heart diseases, and it has already significantly changed echocardiographic diagnoses.