IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ULTRASONIC ECHOES IN PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY.

Only very few ultrasonic studies are available in humans wherein Highly Reflectile Echoes (HREs) from myocardium have been evaluated. A qualitative analysis of the HREs correlated with patient profiles has shown that the HREs arise due to gross fibrosis in cardiac muscles. This paper quantitatively assessed the mean gray levels of 2D echoes in normals and in pediatric patients. The authors have obtained correlations of the histopathological evidence for conditions that give rise to HREs in such patients.