Imaging myocardial strain

myocardial strain and strain rate imaging: comparison between doppler derived strain imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography

Myocardial contractility indices based on strain imaging

Background The principal determinants of chronic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction are reduced myocardial contractility and afterload excess due to adverse LV remodeling. To determine the relative contribution of each to a given instance of LV dysfunction, reliable quantitative indices of both myocardial contractility and afterload are needed. At the LV chamber level, ventricular volume and LV ...

Myocardial Strain Imaging with Tagged MRI

A 4-D B-spline model has been created to accurately capture the dynamic motion of the heart from tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enabling displacement field reconstruction of myocardial deformation. The 4-D model is allowed to deform based on the location of the tag lines for all frames within the constraints of the model’s spatiotemporal internal energy. From a displacement field, the ...

Quantification of Regional Myocardial Function following Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ultrasonic Strain Rate and Strain Imaging

Objectives: The rapid diagnosis and early risk stratification of patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is important. In experimental setting ultrasonic strain rate (SR) and strain (S) have been shown to identify changes in deformation predictive of ischemia. We sought to evaluate and compare regional myocardial function at “the risk zone” (ARZ) supplied by the culprit coron...

Myocardial strain imaging and malignant ventricular arrhythmia risk