Myocardial Deformation Imaging by Echocardiography. Development of Robustness and Inter-Vendor-Variability during the past Decade. KU Leuven
Background. Deformation measurements such as segmental and global strain have been proposed as parameters for the quantification of myocardial function in the late 90ies of the last century. Initial attempts were made with tissue Doppler which was soon overcome by speckle tracking based approaches due to their greater ease of use in clinical practice. Since the early 2000’s, validation studies and observations in larger patient populations ...