Color Doppler Flow Imaging

I. Technical aspects and physical principles revisited.- Structure and performances of mono- and bidimensional pulsed Doppler systems.- Estimation of transvalvular pressure drops by Doppler echocardiography: the Bernoulli equation revisited.- Factors influencing fluid velocity measurements in valvular regurgitation.- Computer-aided analysis of Doppler echocardiograms.- II. Color-coded Doppler flow imaging.- Two years clinical experience with color-coded real-time two- dimensional Doppler cardiography.- Two-dimensional Doppler flow mapping in adult cardiology: advantages and limitations.- Color flow imaging and conventional two-dimensional pulsed Doppler echocardiography: selected observations and experience.- Does color flow mapping Doppler echocardiography allow the catheterization laboratory to be bypassed in surgery of congenital heart disease?.- Color-coded Doppler flow imaging: a major advance for non-invasive cardiology?.- III. Clinical advances in Doppler echocardiography.- Impact of Doppler cardiography on clinical management in adult cardiology.- Limitations of Doppler measurement of volume flow in adults with aortic stenosis.- Doppler echocardiographic assessment of normal and malfunctioning mitral valve prostheses.- The impact of Doppler in pediatric cardiology.- Assessment of the clinical value of continuous wave Doppler ultrasound in children with acyanotic congenital heart disease.- Index of subjects.