1. Professor Xin-fang Wang from China is the Father of Modern Echocardiography 
Tsung O. Cheng 
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2. Fig. 1
Award to Professor Xin-fang Wang as the “Father of Modern Echocardiography” in May 2011.
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3. Fig. 2
The award of the “Father of Modern Echocardiography” being presented to Professor Wang by Dr. Nanda, President of International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound.
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Announcement in a major Chinese newspaper the following day of the 77-year old Professor Wang's receipt of the award of the “Father of Modern Echocardiography”.
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5. Fig. 4
Early use of echocardiography in China being mentioned in chapter 1 of Feigenbaum's Echocardiography.
Modified from Ref. [3].
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6. Fig. 5
China's first ultrasound machines (Courtesy Professor Wang). A. The earliest ultrasonic diagnostic device, the A-mode, made in Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai and used to diagnose liver abscess, pleural effusion, pericardial effusion and pregnancy by An and Professor Wang in 1961–1963. B. ABP ultrasonic diagnostic device made in Shanghai First Medical College capable of display of the M-mode curves (with slow scan circuit) to diagnose mitral stenosis by Xu ZZ in C. ABP ultrasonic diagnostic device made in Wuhan Wireless Element Factory capable of simultaneous display of the M-mode curves with ECG and phonocardiogram (with slow scan circuit) to study patients with mitral stenosis and pregnant women by Professor Wang in 1963.
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7. Fig. 6 World's first fetal echocardiogram (courtesy Professor Wang).
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8. Fig. 7
World's first demonstration of coincidence of the E-peak (double-headed arrow) one chocardiogram with the opening snap (arrow) followed by the flat EA (now called EF) slope corresponding to along diastolic murmur (DM) in a simultaneously recorded phonocardiogram in a patient with mitral stenosis (courtesy Professor Wang).
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9. Fig. 8
World's first contrast echocardiogram with hydrogen peroxide in an open-chest 15-kg dog before (left) and after (right) injection of 1cm3 of 1% hydrogen peroxide (arrow) into the left atrium (LA). Note the immediate appearance in left atrium of the contrast echoes passing through the mitral valve (MV) into the left ventricle (LV) (courtesy Professor Wang).
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10. Fig. 9
Hospital notes of the first human (Professor Wang himself) hydrogen peroxide contrast echocardiography (courtesy Professor Wang). See text for details.
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11. Fig. 10
World's first echocardiogram in a patient with pericardial effusion, showing not only the pericardial effusion but also inspiratory increase in the right ventricular dimension as an explanation for pulsus paradoxus. ECG = electrocardiogram; CW = chest wall; RV = right ventricle; IVS = interventricular septum; MV = mitral valve; LVPW = left ventricular posterior wall; IN = inspiration; EX = expiration (courtesy Professor Wang).
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12. Fig. 11
Books on ultrasound and echocardiography published in China (courtesy Professor Wang).
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13. Fig. 12
Professor Wang's 4th edition of Textbook of Echocardiography (right) side by side with the 7th edition of Feigenbaum's Echocardiography (left).
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14. Fig. 13
Professor Wang and his wife with their granddaughter at her graduation with the degree of MD/PhD in Echocardiography in April 2011.
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15. Fig. 14
Professor Wang (left) and the author (second right) in 1979 with two of Professor Wang's mentors, Professor Yan-san Li (second left) and Professor Yu Gao (right).
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16. Fig. 15
Professor Wang (left) and the author (right) toasting each other in 1994 in Wuhan, autographed by Professor Wang.
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17. Fig. 16
Chinese saying “When drinking the water, think of the men who dug the well” (Chinese calligraphy courtesy Chinese Foreign Minister Jiechi Yang).
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18. International Journal of Cardiology 2012 154, 225-231DOI: (10. 1016/j
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