TY - GEN
T1 - 3D fusion echocardiography improves transoeosphageal LV assessment
AU - Rajpoot, Kashif
AU - Augustine, Daniel
AU - Basagiannis, Christos
AU - Noble, J. Alison
AU - Becher, Harald
AU - Leeson, Paul
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Accurate left ventricular (LV) assessment by transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) can be clinically important particularly in intensive care or intraoperative settings. Assessment from TOE views is limited by foreshortened imaging planes and mitral valve pathology. Transgastric short-axis (SAX) views allow better alignment but may be limited by patient tolerability or patient-related factors (e.g. post gastric surgery). Fusion of multiple 3D volume datasets is now technically possible and improves LV visualisation from transthoracic windows. We hypothesized that fusion of full 3D TOE volumes would improve LV image quality and allow SAX image reconstruction from the oesophagus with improved image quality vs. transgastric SAX views.
AB - Accurate left ventricular (LV) assessment by transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) can be clinically important particularly in intensive care or intraoperative settings. Assessment from TOE views is limited by foreshortened imaging planes and mitral valve pathology. Transgastric short-axis (SAX) views allow better alignment but may be limited by patient tolerability or patient-related factors (e.g. post gastric surgery). Fusion of multiple 3D volume datasets is now technically possible and improves LV visualisation from transthoracic windows. We hypothesized that fusion of full 3D TOE volumes would improve LV image quality and allow SAX image reconstruction from the oesophagus with improved image quality vs. transgastric SAX views.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21028-0_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21028-0_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957662402
SN - 9783642210273
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 161
EP - 162
BT - Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart - 6th International Conference, FIMH 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 6th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, FIMH 2011
Y2 - 25 May 2011 through 27 May 2011
ER -