But the same 3D image modalities can also be obtained with a transthoracic 3D probe: x-Plane imaging (two simultaneous planes), Live 3D (real time 3D images), Live 3D Zoom (Figure 2) and 3D Full Volume (four to seven heart cycles are used to obtain a large volume image) and 3D Color Full Volume (several heart cycles are used to obtain a volume with color Doppler information) become possible to acquire. This probe uses more than 2.500 piezoelectric that allow it to work in two different but complementary ways: 1) as a standard transesophageal transducer, able to obtain 2D, M-mode, Doppler… as when obtaining them with a normal 2D probe (Figure 1).
For the time being, only 3D-TEE probes are commercially available.
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