Cross-Sectional Echocardiography:

Terms Related to Cross-Sectional Echocardiography

• Cross-Sectional Anatomy

  Descriptive anatomy based on three-dimensional imaging of the body, organs, and structures using a series of computer multiplane sections, displayed by transverse, coronal, and sagittal ...

• 3D Echocardiography

  Echocardiography amplified by the addition of depth to the conventional two-dimensional ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY visualizing only the length and width of the heart. Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging was ...

• Blood Flow Velocity

  A value equal to the total volume flow divided by the cross-sectional area of the vascular bed.

• Cross-Sectional Analysis

  Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a ...