This enhanced three-dimensional visualization of intracardiac anatomy will surely improve the understanding of the morphological details of both normal and malformed hearts. Our technique involves no additional cost and can be achieved in the comfort of the office or operating room of the cardiologist, radiologist, or cardiac surgeon. We present here the details of a newly developed technique that permits virtual cardiac dissection using a personal computer and open-source software. These software packages are not available in all countries, thus limiting its use in routine clinical care. At present, virtual cardiac dissection requires expensive software packages.

The alternative approach of virtual cardiac dissection, which is a modification of volume rendering, on the other hand, provides crucial insights regarding the intracardiac anatomy. The volume rendering technique provides an excellent three-dimensional demonstration of external morphology but offers little information about the intracardiac anatomy. The interpretation of cardiac anatomy, however, is generally limited to multiplanar assessment of two-dimensional images. The current generation of high-speed scanners produces volumetric data at low doses of radiation. Saurabh Kumar Gupta 1, Diane E Spicer 2, Robert H Anderson 3ġ Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India 2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA 3 Institute of Genetic Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UKĬlick here for correspondence address andĬomputed tomography has an established role in the evaluation of a variety of cardiac disorders, including congenital heart diseases. A new low-cost method of virtual cardiac dissection of computed tomographic datasets

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