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Use of tissue harmonic imaging in pediatric echocardiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2006

Colin J. McMahon ,
J. Kennard Fraley  and
John P. Kovalchin
Colin J. McMahon
Affiliation:
Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
J. Kennard Fraley
Affiliation:
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
John P. Kovalchin
Affiliation:
Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Abstract

Tissue harmonic imaging improves the quality of images in adults with poor acoustic windows, but its utility in children has yet to be evaluated. The use of fundamental and harmonic imaging were compared in 70 children with poor echocardiographic windows. Scores were higher for harmonic in comparison to fundamental imaging for all views. Harmonic imaging improves the visualization of cardiac structures over fundamental imaging in children with poor echocardiographic windows.

Keywords

Harmonic imagingpediatric echocardiographypoor acoustic windows
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , September 2001 , pp. 562 - 564
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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