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SUBMITTER: Lin K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958501 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Kai K Collins Jeremy D JD Chowdhary Varun V Markl Michael M Carr James C JC
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging 20160413 7
The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that heart deformation analysis (HDA) may serve as an alternative for the quantification of regional myocardial velocity. Nineteen healthy volunteers (14 male and 5 female) without documented cardiovascular diseases were recruited following the approval of the institutional review board (IRB). For each participant, cine images (at base, mid and apex levels of the left ventricle [LV]) and tissue phase mapping (TPM, at same short-axis slices ...[more]