BACKGROUND In clinical color Doppler examinations, mitral regurgitant jets are often
observed to impinge on the left atrial wall immediately beyond the mitral valve. In …

BACKGROUND The ability of transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography to provide
high-resolution images of both cardiac structure and blood flow in real time is advantageous …

Objectives. To determine the influence of jet eccentricity and mechanism of mitral
regurgitation, we examined 1) the relation between jet extent and severity of mitral …

To determine whether Doppler color flow mapping could be used to quantify changing levels
of regurgitant flow and define the technical variables that influence the size of color flow …

Background Recent studies have shown that many instrument and physiological factors limit
the ability of color Doppler total jet area within the receiving chamber to predict the severity …

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical feasibility of three-
dimensional (3D) reconstruction of color Doppler signals in patients with mitral regurgitation …

This study was performed to test the hypothesis that measurements of jet area by Doppler
color flow imaging can predict the angiographic severity and hemodynamic consequences …

Early studies using Doppler color flow imaging have suggested that measurement of the
regurgitant jet area provides information regarding the severity of valvular insufficiency. This …

The narrowest central flow region of a jet is defined as the vena contracta. This term is
applied also to the contracted zone of the Doppler color flow image of a jet at its passage …

Color Doppler jet analysis is widely used to characterize the degree of mitral regurgitation
(MR), but the validity of this approach in patients with ischemic or functional MR has not …