| Preface | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function I | |
| Clinical Application of the Analysis of Diastolic Mitral Inflow: Differentiation of Restriction and Constriction | p. 3 |
| Noninvasive Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function Using Doppler Mitral Regurgitant Velocity Profile | p. 13 |
| What does Pulmonary Vein Flow Analysis Add to the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hemodynamics? | p. 23 |
| Doppler Assessment of Valve and LV Function II | |
| Doppler Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Valve Stenosis Before and After Balloon Catheter Valvuloplasty | p. 39 |
| Dynamics of the Intraventricular Diastolic Flow Velocity Profile in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy | p. 51 |
| Is Ultrasound of Clinical Value in the Management of Heart Transplant Patients? | p. 61 |
| Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation Using Amplitude-Weighted Mean Velocity | p. 71 |
| Contrast Color Doppler-Echocardiography. Improved Diagnosis of Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation | p. 79 |
| New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography I | |
| Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Mitral Valve | p. 91 |
| Determination of Left Ventricular Volume of Means of a Transpulmonary Echocardiographic Contrast Agent | p. 103 |
| Preliminary Clinical Experience with Intracoronary Albunex: a Standardized Echocontrast Agent | p. 109 |
| Influence of ACE-inhibition on Diastolic LV-function in Patients with CHD | p. 121 |
| Dobutamine or Dipyridamole Echocardiography: Which Test for Which Patient? | p. 129 |
| New Clinical Frontiers of Echocardiography II | |
| Identification of Viable Myocardium: Dobutamine Echocardiography Versus Positron Emission Tomography | p. 143 |
| Ultrasonic Backscatter Imaging for Characterization of Cardiac Structure and Function | p. 159 |
| Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pulmonary Embolism | p. 169 |
| Which Role Will Ultrasound Have with Regard to NMR Images? | p. 179 |
| Echo Phase Analysis for Noninvasive Localization of Accessory Pathways: an Adjunct to Endocardial Mapping in the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome | p. 187 |
| Current Application of TEE | |
| Diseases of the Aorta - Critical Evaluation of the Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography | p. 233 |
| The Added Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Imaging Regurgitation through Prosthetic Valves | p. 245 |
| The Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease | p. 253 |
| The Role of CW Doppler in Transesophageal Echocardiography | p. 271 |
| Future Application of TEE | |
| Design Considerations for a Transesophageal Probe | p. 279 |
| Annular Array Multiplanar TEE Probe Allowing 3D Reconstruction of Cineloops of the Heart | p. 287 |
| The Multiplane Probe: Extracting the Full Information from the Transesophageal Window. The Aachen Experience | p. 297 |
| Multiplanar Transesophageal Echocardiography | p. 307 |
| Intravascular and Intracardiac Ultrasound Imaging | |
| Epicardial Coronary Arterial Imaging by Ultrasound: What Have We Learned? | p. 313 |
| Intravascular Ultrasound: Instrumentation, Image Interpretation, Promises and Pitfalls | p. 325 |
| New Directions in Intravascular Ultrasound | p. 343 |
| Coronary Intravascular Ultrasound: Rationale, Technology, and Initial Clinical Applications | p. 355 |
| The Use of Intracoronary Ultrasound to Assess Post-intervention Vessel Wall Responses | p. 375 |
| Quantitative Coronary Angiography plus Intravascular Ultrasound. Useful Additional Information | p. 389 |
| New Technologies in Ultrasound | |
| Ultrasound Angioplasty | p. 399 |
| In Vitro Analysis of a Model of Intracardiac Jet: a Laser Doppler Anemometric Study | p. 411 |
| Ultrasonic Characterization of Normal and Diseased Myocardium | p. 425 |
| The Clinical Impact of Computer Assisted Evaluation of Ultrasonic Tissue and Flow Data | p. 435 |
| Transesophageal Stress Echocardiography: the Combined Use of Transesophageal Atrial Pacing and Transesophageal Two-dimensional Echocardiography | p. 453 |
| Transesophageal Echo Computer Tomography: Computational Reconstruction of Any Desired View of the Beating Heart | p. 461 |
| Future Directions in Cardiovascular Ultrasound | p. 469 |
| Index | p. 477 |
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