Magnetic Resonance Derived Myocardial Strain Assessment Using Feature TrackingKan N. Hor 1, Rolf Baumann 2, Gianni Pedrizzetti 3, Gianni Tonti 3, William M. Gottliebson 1, Michael Taylor 1, D. Woodrow Benson 1, Wojciech Mazur 4
1The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), 2TomTec, Imaging Systems GmbH, 3AMID, Advanced Medical Imaging Development SRL, 4The Heart and Vascular Center, The Christ Hospital
An accurate and practical method to measure parameters like strain in myocardial tissue is of great clinical value, since it has been shown, that strain is a more sensitive and earlier marker for contractile dysfunction than the frequently used parameter EF.
