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Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system.

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Kisslo, JA; vonRamm, OT; Thurstone, FL
Published in: Yale J Biol Med
1977

This report describes the operating characteristics and initial clinical results of a new echocardiographic system that produces real-time, high resolution, cross-sectional images of the heart. This system relies upon phased-array principles to rapidly steer and focus the ultrasound beam through the cardiac structures under investigation. A hand-held, linear array of 24 transducers is manipulated on the patient's chest to direct the interrogating plane at various cardiac structures. Images of high line density are presented in selectable sector arcs to a maximum of 90 degrees. This imaging system has been used clinically in over 2,000 patients in the past two and one-half years. Its use in the detection of altered states of ventricular and valvular pathology has been described.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Yale J Biol Med

ISSN

0044-0086

Publication Date

1977

Volume

50

Issue

4

Start / End Page

355 / 365

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Transducers
  • Humans
  • Heart Diseases
  • Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Echocardiography
  • Computers
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences
 

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Kisslo, J. A., vonRamm, O. T., & Thurstone, F. L. (1977). Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system. Yale J Biol Med, 50(4), 355–365.
Kisslo, J. A., O. T. vonRamm, and F. L. Thurstone. “Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system.Yale J Biol Med 50, no. 4 (1977): 355–65.
Kisslo JA, vonRamm OT, Thurstone FL. Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system. Yale J Biol Med. 1977;50(4):355–65.
Kisslo, J. A., et al. “Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system.Yale J Biol Med, vol. 50, no. 4, 1977, pp. 355–65.
Kisslo JA, vonRamm OT, Thurstone FL. Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system. Yale J Biol Med. 1977;50(4):355–365.

Published In

Yale J Biol Med

ISSN

0044-0086

Publication Date

1977

Volume

50

Issue

4

Start / End Page

355 / 365

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Transducers
  • Humans
  • Heart Diseases
  • Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Echocardiography
  • Computers
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences