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Cardiac ultrasound has been one of the most important advances in noninvasive cardiac imaging and is currently the most widely used and cost-effective diagnostic imaging tool in cardiology.1 Since it is often the best or even the only applicable method, it has largely supplanted other imaging modalities in a wide variety of health care environments. Miniaturization and digital techniques recently resulted in the development of high-resolution battery-powered small hand-held ultrasound devices with excellent gray-scale and color blood-flow imaging capabilities.
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Vourvouri, E.C., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (2009). Ultrasound Stethoscopy. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-293-1_32
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