TEE/Angio Fusion Study

This study is for patients planned to undergo a transcatheter-based structural heart disease procedure that utilizes TEE and fluoroscopic guidance at the NYU Langone Medical Center. It will evaluate the utility and workflow of the transesophageal echocardiography/angiography (TEE/Angio) fusion software prototype to provide visualization of anatomic landmarks and guidance during structural heart disease procedures. The purpose of this study is to evaluate software (TEE/Angio fusion) that merges images from two standard procedures (ultrasound and x-ray) used to look at the heart during a procedure for structural heart disease. Typically, these 2-dimensional images are viewed separately, requiring the operator to mentally merge the two images together while deciding if he/she is in the correct location for the treatment strategy. TEE/Angio fusion is designed to make a single 3-dimensional image of the heart in real-time.