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A new angled transducer for intraoperative epicardial echocardiography
R Matsuwaka1, H Matsuda, S Nakano
1First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|April 9, 1991
Abstract:
We tested a new angled transducer developed for intraoperative epicardial echocardiography in 42 patients. This small transducer, 70 x 20 x 15 mm in size, demonstrated superior operability and provided adequate two- or four-chamber imaging from the apical approach, which may lead to high-quality assessment with two-dimensional Doppler flow imaging.