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This volume contains most of the invited lectures presented at the second "Interna tional Symposium on the Evaluation of Cardiac Dynamics by Ultrasound" which was held on May 27-28, 1982, in Hamburg. Main topics of the symposium dealt with new echocardiographic technologies such as the transesophageal technique and digital image processing of echocardio grams, as well as with latest clinical and experimental results in the fields of contrast and Doppler echocardiography, tissue characterization and analysis of left ventricular function. We are greatly indebted to all participants who kept a very tight schedule in order to have these proceedings available at the time of the meeting. We cordially thank Dr. M. Schluter for his editorial assistance, Mrs. B. Kratzenberg for her secretarial help, and the Pharma-Schwarz Company for their generous financial support. Hamburg, May 1982 The Editors CONTRIBUTORS ABE, A., First Department of Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, 1-1-50, Fukushi ma, Fukushima-ku, Osaka 553, Japan. BACKS, B., Medizinische Universitiitsklinik Bonn, Abteilung fUr Kardiologie, 5300 Bonn, BRO. BAKER, D.W., Ph. D., Squibb Medical Systems International, 2100 124th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA 98005, USA. BIAMINO, G., M.D., Klinikum Steglitz, Kardiologische Abteilung, Hindenburgdamm 30, 1000 Berlin 20, BRO. BLEIFELD, W., M.D., Abteilung fiir Kardiologie, Universitiitskrankenhaus Eppendorf, Martini strasse 52, 2000 Hamburg 20, BRO. BOM, K., Ph. D., Thorax Center, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The material in this volume was prepared and collected over the past four years with the growing realization that a technical revolution was in progress for diagnostic medicine. It became clear that for the wide variety of imaging instruments and methods finding their way into applications for research and clinical medicine, there was a scarcity of reference and text books for the scientist and engineer beginning in the field. Thus what began as a relatively small project for a single volume has grown into certainly two and probably three volumes to adequately cover the field. This first volume is expected to be followed within a few months by a second volume, dealing with diagnostic radiology, and within a year by a third volume, covering most other aspects of medicine that utilize spectra from the ultraviolet through the visible into the near-infrared. The chapters in this book are divided into three groups. The first group deals with nuclear medicine and includes Chapters 1-8. These chapters are arranged to begin with a broad introduction to the subject (Chapter 1) followed by a sequence of four chapters (Chapters 2-5) that provide an in-depth review of the imaging instrumentation developed for the field. Chapter 6 deals with "evaluation" of imaging device per formance, while Chapters 7 and 8 discuss two areas of considerable re search activity.