medvisМедицинская визуализацияMedical Visualization1607-07632408-9516RDS-Media Ltd.10.24835/1607-0763-2018-1-26-35medvis-504Research ArticleГРУДНАЯ КЛЕТКАTHORAXМЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ ВИЗУАЛИЗАЦИИ КОРОНАРНЫХ АРТЕРИЙ ПРИ ТРАНСТОРАКАЛЬНОЙ ЭХОКАРДИОГРАФИИMETHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF VISUALIZATION OF CORONARY ARTERIES WITH TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHYАгаеваЗ. А.AgaevaZ. A.

Агаева Зоя Абуевна – доктор медицинских наук, профессор кафедры лучевой диагностики, лучевой терапии.

Краснодар

Zoya A. Agaeva – doct. of med. sci., professor of chair of radiology methods of diagnostics and treatment.

Krasnodar

БагдасарянК. А.BaghdasaryanK. B.

Багдасарян Карапет Акопович – аспирант кафедры лучевой диагностики, лучевой терапии.

350063 Краснодар, ул. Седина, 4, 8-961-507-97-44

Karapet A. Baghdasaryan – postgraduate (aspirant) of chair of radiology methods of diagnostics and treatment.

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kbagdasaryan.83@mail.ruФГБОУ ВО “Кубанский государственный медицинский университет” Минздрава РоссииРоссияKuban State Medical UniversityRussian Federation201828022018012635Copyright © Агаева З.А., Багдасарян К.А., 20182018Агаева З.А., Багдасарян К.А.Agaeva Z.A., Baghdasaryan K.B.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://medvis.rdsmedia.ru/jour/article/view/504

Трансторакальная эхокардиография, выполненная с помощью мультичастотных датчиков с поддержкой режима второй тканевой гармоники, является конкурентоспособным методом для визуализации магистральных коронарных артерий и позволяет качественно оценить спектр коронарного кровотока в них. Безусловно, у метода есть значительные ограничения, самой главной из которых является низкая пространственная разрешающая способность метода из-за небольшого акустического окна. Именно из-за этого трансторакальное исследование коронарных артерий, по всей видимости, не станет лидирующим методом анатомической реконструкции отдельно взятой коронарной артерии и тем более всего коронарного русла. Однако уникальностью и неоспоримым преимуществом данного метода является  возможность неинвазивно оценить коронарный кровоток как однократно, так и в динамике.

The transthoracic echocardiography made by multifrequency probes with support of the mode of the second harmonic imaging, is a competitive method for visualization of the main coronary arteries and allows to estimate coronary blood flow with high quality. Of course, the method has considerable restrictions, most important of which is the low spatial resolution of a method, due to small acoustic window. Because of this the transthoracic visualization of coronary arteries perhaps will not become the leading method of anatomic reconstruction of separately taken coronary artery and especially all coronary arteries system. However uniqueness and indisputable advantage of this method is an opportunity to noninvasively estimate a coronary blood flow both once, and in dynamics.

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