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1990 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Echocardiographic Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Heart

verfasst von : Riccardo Pini, Elisabetta Monnini, Leonardo Masotti, Kevin L. Novins, Donald P. Greenberg, Barbara Greppi, Marino Cerofolini, Richard B. Devereux

Erschienen in: 3D Imaging in Medicine

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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To perform three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of the heart by ultrasound, we developed a novel rotating echocardiographic probe which, with computer assistance, allows “real” 3-D reconstruction of the beating heart from 62 standard fan shaped two-dimensional (2-D) images acquired at 2.903 degree increments of rotation around its central axis. To reconstruct 3-D images of the beating heart, an entire cardiac cycle was recorded from each transducer position with electrocardiographic gating; acquisition time is 75 to 123 seconds in normal sinus rhythm. For each frame of the cardiac cycle, the 62 images digitized in cylindrical coordinates were processed by a scan converter algorithm to reconstruct a 3-D cone of information in cartesian coordinates. From the 3-D matrices stored in the computer, 2-D echocardiographic images in any plane at specified times in the cardiac cycle, or throughout the entire cardiac cycle, can be derived and visualized. A computer workstation-based system was developed to create full 3-D perspective projections of the echocardiographic data based on a technique called ray tracing, and adapted for use in visualizing 3-D scalar fields. The 3-D images obtained in normal volunteers demonstrated that our system permits an accurate reconstruction of the heart with the same spatial and temporal resolution as the original 2-D echocardiograms without cumbersome external reference systems.

Metadaten
Titel
Echocardiographic Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Heart
verfasst von
Riccardo Pini
Elisabetta Monnini
Leonardo Masotti
Kevin L. Novins
Donald P. Greenberg
Barbara Greppi
Marino Cerofolini
Richard B. Devereux
Copyright-Jahr
1990
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84211-5_17

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