TY - JOUR
T1 - Intracardiac flow visualization
T2 - Current status and future directions
AU - Muñoz, Daniel Rodriguez
AU - Markl, Michael
AU - Mur, José Luis Moya
AU - Barker, Alex
AU - Fernández-Golfín, Covadonga
AU - Lancellotti, Patrizio
AU - Gómez, José Luis Zamorano
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging initially focused on heart structures, allowing the visualization of their motion and inferring its functional status from it. Colour-Doppler and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) have allowed a visual approach to intracardiac flow behaviour, as well as measuring its velocity at single selected spots. Recently, the application of new technologies to medical use and, particularly, to cardiology has allowed, through different algorithms in CMR and applications of ultrasound-related techniques, the description and analysis of flow behaviour in all points and directions of the selected region, creating the opportunity to incorporate new data reflecting cardiac performance to cardiovascular imaging. The following review provides an overview of the currently available imaging techniques that enable flow visualization, as well as its present and future applications based on the available literature and on-going works.
AB - Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging initially focused on heart structures, allowing the visualization of their motion and inferring its functional status from it. Colour-Doppler and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) have allowed a visual approach to intracardiac flow behaviour, as well as measuring its velocity at single selected spots. Recently, the application of new technologies to medical use and, particularly, to cardiology has allowed, through different algorithms in CMR and applications of ultrasound-related techniques, the description and analysis of flow behaviour in all points and directions of the selected region, creating the opportunity to incorporate new data reflecting cardiac performance to cardiovascular imaging. The following review provides an overview of the currently available imaging techniques that enable flow visualization, as well as its present and future applications based on the available literature and on-going works.
KW - Flow mapping
KW - Intracardiac flow
KW - Multimodality imaging
KW - Vortex flow
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U2 - 10.1093/ehjci/jet086
DO - 10.1093/ehjci/jet086
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23907342
AN - SCOPUS:84885928303
SN - 2047-2404
VL - 14
SP - 1029
EP - 1038
JO - European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging
JF - European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging
IS - 11
ER -