We prospectively evaluated real-time ultrasound speckle tracking for monitoring soft tissue motion for image-guided radiotherapy. Two human volunteers and 1 patient with a proven hepatocellular carcinoma, who was being prepared for radiation therapy treatment, were scanned using a clinical ultrasound scanner modified to acquire and store radiofrequency signals. Scans were performed of the liver...

We develop a self-mixing laser interferometer for the measurement of displacements on a generic target surface. The measurement is based on the bright-speckle tracking, a technique we have recently proposed to solve amplitude fading associated with the speckle statistics when the displacement to be covered is well in excess of the speckle longitudinal size. We implement the dynamical tracking o...

Advances in the imaging techniques of the heart have fueled the interest in understanding of right heart pathology. Recently, speckle tracking echocardiography has shown to aid in understanding various right heart diseases and better management. Its role is well established in diagnosing right heart failure, pulmonary artery hypertension, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and congenita...

I. Nemes A, Kalapos A, Domsik P, Forster T. Left ventricular strain reduction is not confinied to the noncompacted segments in noncompaction cardiomyopathy – a threedimensional speckle tracking echocardiographic study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2013; 14 (Suppl 2.); ii35. II. Nemes A, Kalapos A, Domsik P, Lengyel Cs, Orosz A, Forster T. Relationship between three-dimensional speckle trackin...

I. Nemes A, Kalapos A, Domsik P, Forster T. Left ventricular strain reduction is not confinied to the noncompacted segments in noncompaction cardiomyopathy – a threedimensional speckle tracking echocardiographic study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2013; 14 (Suppl 2.); ii35. II. Nemes A, Kalapos A, Domsik P, Lengyel Cs, Orosz A, Forster T. Relationship between three-dimensional speckle trackin...

Case summary A 5-month-old intact female Scottish Fold cat was presented for cardiac evaluation. Careful auscultation detected a slight systolic murmur (Levine I/VI). The findings of electrocardiography, thoracic radiography, non-invasive blood pressure measurements and conventional echocardiographic studies were unremarkable. However, two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography revealed ...