This issue of Dialogues in Cardiovascular Medicine is devoted to “New Images in Cardiology.” The Editors-in-Chief were wise to pick this topic, as history has never seen a more exciting time for imaging in cardiology.
Imaging is the bread and butter of cardiology. Almost every patient cared for by cardiologists will at some point undergo some form of diagnostic imaging. Cardiac imaging has been developed with ever-increasing levels of sophistication over the past century, and there have been three phases of major development. The first started with the discovery of the x- (or Roentgen) rays by W. C. Roentgen in 1895, with the subsequent development of the chest x-ray during the beginning of the 20th century...