The Clinical Benefits of Adding a Third Dimension to Assess the Left Ventricle with Echocardiography
Figure 4
Schematic representation of two-dimensional (i.e., tomographic (a)) and single-beat three-dimensional (i.e., volumetric (b)) of the left ventricular short axis at mitral valve level. Volumetric rendering displays many more details and allows better appreciation of spatial relationship among cardiac structures. (c) shows the multibeat acquisition modality: two to six consecutive single-beat subvolumes are stitched together to obtain a full-volume with higher spatial and temporal resolution.
