SEEING IN 4D W

hen it comes to seeing clearly — no one does it better than the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence. They are poised to begin a new era in cardiac diagnostics with the latest in imaging technology — 4D ultrasound of the heart. This innovative advance in imaging technology will capture pictures of your heart in three dimensions — in real time. This will allow ICE physicians and technicians to study your beating heart, identifying its structure down to the minutest detail. Problems that once took invasive procedures, and several hours, to diagnose will now be clearly discerned and instantly diagnosed by ICE physicians.

This new 4D technology permits technicians not only to assess your heart’s structural problems but also determine how those problems are affecting your heart’s function. ICE physicians will be able to look deep within the heart, seeing past the outer wall of muscle and isolating individual heart valves. The image they see will be that of the valve itself, opening and closing in real time with each beat of your heart. Add in Doppler technology and they can even discern the rate of blood flow through the valve. This will enable them to detect issues such as mitral valve regurgitation and to check the status of replaced mitral and aortic valves.

Amazing new 4D technology will give ICE specialists crisper, sharper anatomical images not available with standard 2D ultrasound and may even save patients the time and expense of further testing. In instances when the only alternative is transesophageal ultrasound, no one does it better than the staff at ICE. The images produced allow a detailed analysis of the heart and its structures under light anesthetic.

The ICE staff prides itself on staying on the cutting edge when it comes to providing the very best in technological advances for the comfort and service of its patients.