Cardiac Imaging Planes: A "How-To Guide" Start off with scout images (Figure 1). From this 2-chamber scout (Figure 3) and the axial image (Figure 4), you can define a double-oblique short-axis plane.

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a practical, transthoracic, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the ...