three-dimensional echocardiography

three-dimensional echocardiography
a technique that creates a three-dimensional image of the heart, either by digital reconstruction from multiple stored two-dimensional echocardiograms or in real time by means of a transducer that generates a phased array of ultrasound beams from which a three-dimensional image is produced.

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