Using technology to find the secret places of the heart

摘要

Over the last two decades there has been a revolution in echocardiography with the introduction of multiple new technologies, tools and parameters. Today, the heart is not just evaluated using simple motion mode and 2-dimensional (2D) imaging but modalities have been expanded with colour, spectral and tissue Doppler, and 3D imaging. New tools are usually introduced firstly into human cardiology and later adopted for the veterinary species, but technologies are often originally assessed in research animals for feasibility and safety.