Evaluation of myocardial mechanics, although complex, has now entered the clinical arena, thanks to the introduction of bedside imaging techniques, such as speckletracking echocardiography. Overcoming the limitations of previous techniques, such as tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI), bi-dimensional (2D) and, only recently, three-dimensional (3D) speckle tracking, allows a fast, reproducible, and semi...

Ultrasonography for the noninvasive assessment of tissue properties has enjoyed widespread success. With the growing emphasis in recent years on arteriovenous fistulae (AVFs) for dialysis vascular access in patients with end-stage renal disease, and on reducing AVF failures, there is increasing interest in ultrasound for the preoperative evaluation of the mechanical and elastic properties of ar...

We present a method for real-time tracking of moving soft tissue with B-mode ultrasound (US). The method makes use of the speckle information contained in the US images to estimate the in-plane and out-of-plane motion of a fixed target relative to the ultrasound scan plane. The motion information is then used as closed-loop feedback to a robot which corrects for the target motion. The concept i...

UNLABELLED ICMA, a software framework to create 3D finite element models of the left ventricle from cardiac ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, has been made available as an open-source code. The framework is hardware vendor independent and uses speckle tracking (endocardial border detection) on ultrasound (MRI) imaging data in the form of DICOM. Standard American Heart Associa...

Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) and two-dimensional speckle tracking (2D-STE) were used to detect left ventricular myocardial microcirculation perfusion systolic function in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) explore the relationship between two.

assessment of ventricular function in patients with heart failure symptoms. Recent advancements in echocardiography permit measurement of myocar­ dial mechanics through the use of strain imaging. Current techniques are either Doppler based or rely on speckle tracking in two dimensions, but each has limitations. Accordingly, three­dimensional wall motion tracking (3D­WMT) offers rapid acqui ­ si...

Left bundle branch block (LBBB) poses some restriction on coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis with noninvasive diagnostic modalities. Objectives: Evaluating the role of 2-D speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in CAD patients LBBB.