The Clinical Benefits of Adding a Third Dimension to Assess  the Left Ventricle with Echocardiography

<table>Two-dimensional echocardiography is a tomographic technique which provides “flat” views of the heart and great vessels whose thickness is fixed and related to the piezoelectric element vertical dimension. Three-dimensional echocardiography is based on real-time volumetric imaging that allows acquisition of pyramidal data sets.</table>

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Figure 1: The Clinical Benefits of Adding a Third Dimension to Assess  the Left Ventricle with Echocardiography 