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In obtaining ultrasonic tomograms of the heart and great vessels, there are, unlike other organs, some particular conditions: The pulsation of movement of all the echo sources, and the anatomical situation that the heart is covered by the lung and the costa. The positions of the echo sources repeatedly vary with time in the thoracic cavity. To obtain the stationary tomograms of the living heart at various cardiac phases, there have been proposed several methods. To overcome the pulsation movement, a synchronization method, a high speed scanning method and a tomo-kymographic method have been introduced. To solve the anatomical situation, an intra-cardiac, intra-esophagal, intra-tracheal and transthoracic methods have been developed. Those methods will be described in this paper, by placing some emphasis on the methods which the present authors have developed within the present clinical routine.
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Kikuchi, Y., Okuyama, D., Tanaka, M. (1974). Ultrasono-Cardio-Tomography. In: Stroke, G.W., Kock, W.E., Kikuchi, Y., Tsujiuchi, J. (eds) Ultrasonic Imaging and Holography. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4493-3_14
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