An echocardiogram is similar to an ultrasound scan. It uses ultrasound waves to create images of the heart and the surrounding blood vessels. During an echocardiogram, a medical professional uses ...

Adair was sent for a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis, then underwent open-heart surgery performed by cardiac surgeon Dr. Hirohisa Ikegami. "I know it was the ultrasound that I had in the ...

University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the heart could help to detect a life-threatening heart disease and enable clinicians to better predict which patients are most at risk, according to a new ...

MRI scans could be used to predict people who ... The current NHS approach to assessing heart failure typically starts with a heart ultrasound - known as an echocardiogram - followed by invasive ...

The heart is one of the most difficult organs for ultrasound. You only see a 2-D ... but also that it saved on average 5 minutes for each scan. That's something that could make a difference ...