Strain-based imaging techniques (and specifically speckle-tracking echocardiography) have
been shown to have clinical utility in a variety of settings. This technique is being embraced …

Advances in speckle-tracking echocardiography allowed the rise of deformation imaging as
a feasible, robust, and valuable tool for clinical routine. The global or segmental …

An epicardial bioelectronic patch is an important device for investigating and treating heart
diseases. The ideal device should possess cardiac-tissue-like mechanical softness and …

Humans have inadvertently changed global ecosystems and triggered the dawn of a new
geological epoch, the Anthropocene. While some organisms can tolerate human activities …

Means for high-density multiparametric physiological mapping and stimulation are critically
important in both basic and clinical cardiology. Current conformal electronic systems are …

The authors summarize the recent developments in speckle-tracking echocardiography
(STE), a relatively new technique that can be used in conjunction with two-dimensional or …

After X-radiography, ultrasound is now the most common of all the medical imaging
technologies. For millennia, manual palpation has been used to assist in diagnosis, but it is …

LV. 5, 9 The deep muscle fibers of the RV are longitudinally aligned base to apex. In contrast
to the RV, the LV contains obliquely oriented myofibers superficially, longitudinally oriented …

The interest in the left atrium (LA) has resurged over the recent years. In the early 1980s,
multiple studies were conducted to determine the normal values of LA size. Over the past …

Echocardiographic strain imaging, also known as deformation imaging, has been developed
as a means to objectively quantify regional myocardial function. First introduced as post …