Echocardiographic identification of atrial-related structures and vessels in horses validated by computed tomography of casted hearts.
T VandecasteeleP CornillieG van SteenkisteK VandeveldeI GielenK VanderperrenGunther van LoonPublished in: Equine veterinary journal (2018)
Important cardiac structures and vessels, even the different pulmonary veins, could be identified on standard and nonstandard ultrasound images in adult horses. This knowledge is important to guide and develop interventional cardiology and might be useful for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance imaging
- left atrial
- high resolution
- healthcare
- deep learning
- positron emission tomography
- atrial fibrillation
- mitral valve
- convolutional neural network
- optical coherence tomography
- inferior vena cava
- heart failure
- ejection fraction
- dual energy
- bioinformatics analysis
- magnetic resonance
- contrast enhanced
- image quality
- thoracic surgery
- childhood cancer