EuroEcho-Imaging 2016 will bring together international experts to discuss the use of holograms and 3D printing to guide interventions during the annual conference, held 7 to 10 December in Leipzig, Germany.
EuroEcho-Imaging is the annual meeting of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). More than 3,200 healthcare professionals are expected to attend from over 90 countries.
In 3D imaging, data are used to create an image of the heart that can be used to guide the interventional cardiologist in correcting structural abnormalities. Also at the congress, further developments will be highlighted in 3D printing techniques, which use 3D imaging data to create exact and patient-specific cardiac structures then used to plan procedures.
The two main themes of the congress are the role of imaging in arrhythmias and aortic valve diseases.
During the four-day meeting, original science will be presented in more than 1,000 abstracts.
