Guidelines for the echocardiographic assessment of the right heart in adults: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography endorsed by the European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, and the Canadian Society of Echocardiography.

摘要

In 1974, shortly after the advent of two-dimensional (2D) echocar-diography (2DE), Dekker et al1 published the results of their graduate work at Stanford University, "A System for Ultrasonically . Imaging the Human Heart in Three Dimensions." Their vision was clear: "With the four dimensional data stored on the computer, programs to determine such properties as ejection fraction, wall thickness, aneurysms, defects, valve motions, structure velocities and heart power can be developed as well as image enhancement routines."