Measurement of Left Ventricular Parameters using Ultrasound Transducer - A preliminary study

Heart Parameters need to be monitored for diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities. Echocardiography technique is widely used to view 2D image of heart in non invasive method using ultrasound. In practice, echocardiography devices typically use multi-element phased array transducer which involves complex algorithms and computations to develop M-Mode images, which are used to measure parameters by placing the cursors manually. A simple hardware with single element ultrasound transducer has been used to record M-Mode images on a single axis. A simulation based preliminary study to validate the algorithm setup used for construction of M-Mode images of heart has been proposed. This study facilitates fine tuning of algorithm for measurement of left ventricular parameters. Since single element transducer and simple algorithm is used, system is less complex, simple and low cost.