Shimon Reisner
Dept. of Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Walter Markiewicz
Dept. of Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Diana Rinkiewich
Dept. of Cardiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
Samuel Sideman
Departments of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering The Julius Silver Institute of Biomedical Engineering Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Rafael Beyar
The Julius Silver Institute, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Heart System Research Center, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Competent invasive therapeutic methods have been introduced into clinical cardiology in recent years, and new imaging procedures have been developed for on-line evaluation of the results of these interventions. These include intravascular ultrasound and Doppler, transesophageal echocardiography and new methods for evaluating myocardial viability and perfusion.