Principles and Practice of Echocardiography Book

1	Physical Principles of Ultrasound	3
2	Cross-Sectional Scanning: Technical Principles and Instrumentation	29
3	Digital Image Processing	56
4	Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Examination	75
5	Standard Plane Positions - Standard Imaging Planes	98
6	Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Echocardiographic Images	124
7	Principles of Doppler Flow Measurement	143
8	Doppler Instrumentation	163
9	Principles of Flow	184
10	Doppler Signal Processing	201
11	Principles of Color Flow Mapping	218
12	Fluid Dynamics of Regurgitant Jets and Their Imaging by Color Doppler	234
13	The Routine Doppler Examination	256
14	M-Mode Echocardiography: Principles and Examination Techniques	282
15	Miscellaneous Echocardiographic Techniques I: Contrast Echocardiography	302
16	Miscellaneous Echocardiographic Techniques II: Transesophageal Echocardiography, Epicardial Echocardiography, Intraoperative Echocardiography, Catheter-Based (Intravascular and Intracardiac) Echocardiography, and Sonomicrometry	327
17	Left Ventricular Inflow Tract I: The Mitral Valve	391
18	Left Ventricular Inflow Tract II: The Left Atrium, Pulmonary Veins, and Coronary Sinus	471
19	Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: The Aortic Valve, Aorta, and Subvalvular Outflow Tract	498
20	Left Ventricle I: General Considerations, Assessment of Chamber Size and Function	575
21	Left Ventricle II: Quantification of Segmental Dysfunction	625
22	Left Ventricle III: Coronary Artery Disease - Clinical Manifestations and Complications	656
23	Left Ventricle IV: Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion with Contrast Two-Dimensional Echocardiography	687
24	Left Ventricle V: Diastolic Function - Its Principles and Evaluation	721
25	Echocardiographic Assessment of the Cardiomyopathies	781
26	Right Ventricular Inflow Tract	824
27	Right Ventricular Outflow Tract	863
28	Right Ventricle	901
29	Interatrial and Interventricular Septa	922
30	Doppler Estimation of Volumetric Flow	955
31	Complex Congenital Heart Disease I: A Diagnostic Approach	979
32	Complex Congenital Heart Disease II: A Pathologic Approach	1002
33	Fetal Echocardiography	1057
34	Coronary Arteries	1076
35	Pericardial Disease	1102
36	Cardiac Tumors and Masses	1135
37	Echocardiographic Findings in Infective Endocarditis	1178
38	Echo-Doppler Assessment of Prosthetic Heart Valves	1198
39	Echocardiography in Cardiac Transplantation	1231
40	The Echocardiogram in Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm and Conduction	1240
41	Tissue Characterization	1264
	Appendix A: Normal Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Measurements	1289
	Appendix B: Application of Fourier Analysis in Echocardiography	1299
	Index	1307