Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography and Myocardial Strain: Ready for Use in Clinical Practice

摘要

The ability of echocardiography to quantify volumes and to evaluate the contractile function of cardiac chambers has evolved greatly in recent years, particularly due to the development of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (echo3D) and the possibility myocardial deformation (Strain) analysis by the speckle tracking technique.