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echocardiography
(redirected from contrast echocardiography)

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echocardiography [‚ek·ō‚kärd·ē′äg·rə·fē]
(medicine)
A diagnostic technique for the heart that uses a transducer held against the chest to send high-frequency sound waves which pass harmlessly into the heart; as they strike structures within the heart, they are reflected back to the transducer and recorded on an oscilloscope.


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6) In addition, contrast echocardiography can be useful, as it provides clearer endocardial border delineation for the application of the above criteria, especially in cases with more subtle morphology of noncompaction.
Senior describes Imagify, its clinical development and his views on how the investigational drug is positioned to influence the evolving discipline of myocardial contrast echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial perfusion (blood flow in the heart muscle).
One such trial, named ACCESS (Acquiring Consensus for Contrast Echocardiography System Settings), is designed to determine the appropriate equipment settings for Imagify on a variety of ultrasound hardware platforms.
 
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