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Advances in Noninvasive Cardiology :

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9789400967205

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Advances in Noninvasive Cardiology :

[Book]

Ultrasound, computed tomography, radioisotopes, digital angiography

edited by Jürgen Meyer, Peter Schweizer, Raimund Erbel.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1983

(270 pages)

Developments in cardiovascular medicine, 24.

I. Advances in Methodology --;1. Computer structures for digital imaging --;2. Digital optical recording --;the key to mass picture storage --;3. Advances and perspectives in ultrasound technology --;4. Automatic evaluation of left ventricular contour from two-dimensional echocardiography --;5. Clinical implications of transesophageal echocardiography. Present status and future aspects --;6. Noninvasive evaluation and quantification of regional myocardial blood flow --;II. Quantification of Global Ventricular Function --;7. Present status of digital angiocardiography --;8. Quantification of left ventricular function by two-dimensional echocardiography --;9. Imaging of the left ventricle by contrast echocardiography --;10. Quantification of left ventricular function by Doppler ultrasound --;11. Scintigraphic methods for quantifying global left ventricular function --;12. Quantification of left ventricular function by computed tomography --;III. Regional Wall Motion in Myocardial Ischemia --;13. Early changes in transmural ischemia: an overview on detection capabilities offered by echocardiographic and nuclear techniques in man --;14. Regional wall motion during stress testing: a comparison between atrial pacing and isometric hand grip --;15. Digital imaging of the left ventricle by peripheral contrast injection. Detection of impaired global and regional left ventricular function --;16. Combined cardiac cineangiography and peripheral digital subtraction angiography --;IV. Detection and Quantification of Acute Myocardial Infarction --;17. Technical aspects of precordial ECG-mapping --;18. Abilities and limitations of precordial mapping in acute myocardial infarction --;19. Detection and quantification of acute myocardial infarction by two-dimensional echocardiography --;20. Detection and quantification of acute myocardial infarction by myocardial scintigraphy --;21. Transmission computed tomography in acute myocardial infarction --;V. Tissue Analysis --;22. Tissue quantification by ultrasound. Technical aspects --;23. Approaches to myocardial tissue characterization using ultrasound echo amplitude information --;24. Digital analysis of echo-signals for tissue characterization --;25. Digital two-dimensional echocardiography: line-mode data acquisition, image processing and approaches to quantitation --;26. Analysis of myocardial structure by computed tomography --;27. Analysis of coronary bypass graft patency by computed tomography.

Many noninvasive examination methods of the heart have not held out against the invasive methods, which modern cardiac therapy, surgically or with catheterization, requires. They have disappeared completely or are only used by isolated groups of researchers. However, there is an obvious tendency to apply the invasive procedures as the last diagnostic possibility. In the attempt to select clinically relevant methods, the expert authors of this book demonstrate that echocardiography, expanded with contrast and Doppler, has been developed into one of the most important noninvasive methods. The results with tissue characterization show that the possibilities of this method have not yet been fully explored. Nuclear procedures are widely used, although they should only be applied in direct connection with clinical cardiology. The new lead methods of the ecg, such as ecg-mapping, show that standard electrocardiography of electrical functions is not yet fully exploited. The rapidly developing method of computer tomography is also being applied to cardiology. Since nuclear magnetic resonance requires extensive equipment con struction, its future is as yet unsure. Of course, a book like this does not intend to treat the subject of noninvasive cardiology in extensive detail. Established methods like standard electrocardio graphy, phonocardiography and sphygmography are not discussed. The aim of this book is rather to demonstrate the trend of present developments in the field. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Ameling, W., Rogowski-Institut fUr Elektronik, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule, Goethestrasse 27/29, D-5100 Aachen, FRG. Bachmann, K., Medizinische Poliklinik, Universitat Eriangen-NUrnberg, Ostliche Stadtmauerstrasse 29, D-8520 Erlangen, FRG.

Cardiology.

Medicine.

edited by Jürgen Meyer, Peter Schweizer, Raimund Erbel.

Jürgen Meyer

Peter Schweizer

Raimund Erbel

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