Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, Canada, and
worldwide. Severe disease is characterized by coronary artery occlusion, loss of blood flow …

Objectives Two-dimensional strain echocardiography (2DSE) technique has enabled
accurate quantification of regional myocardial function. This experimental study was aimed …

Background Traditional preclinical echocardiography (ECHO) modalities, including 1-
dimensional motion-mode (M-Mode) and 2-dimensional long axis (2D-US), rely on …

Background—In a correlative functional/histopathologic study, we investigated the regional
deformation characteristics of both chronic nontransmural and transmural infarctions before …

Objective. This study was designed to validate the feasibility of wideband high‐frequency
ultrasound imaging to resolve in vivo the degree, location, and morphologic changes of …

A versatile, computationally efficient two-dimensional (2D) speckle-tracking method based
on high resolution ultrasound imaging is proposed to quantify regional myocardial …

Left ventricular (LV) mass is an important descriptor of cardiac status that increases with
normal aging and may be affected by a variety of disease processes. There are currently …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to develop a simple and reasonably precise
echocardiographic method for the assessment of infarct size (IS) and cardiac dysfunction in …

Aim Successful primary PTCA (with TIMI 3 reflow) in patients with acute transmural infarction
has been observed to result in an immediate abnormal increase in wall thickness associated …

Myocardial infarction (MI) injury extends from the endocardium toward the epicardium. This
phenomenon should be taken into consideration in the detection of MI. To study the extent of …