Jan D'hooge

Tissue Doppler Echocardiography: Future Developments.

Acute changes in systolic and diastolic events during clinical coronary angioplasty: a comparison of regional velocity, strain rate, and strain measurement.

Quantification of regional left and right ventricular radial and longitudinal function in healthy children using ultrasound-based strain rate and strain imaging.

Two-dimensional ultrasonic strain rate measurement of the human heart in vivo.

Can strain rate and strain quantify changes in regional systolic function during dobutamine infusion, B-blockade, and atrial pacing--implications for quantitative stress echocardiography.

Myocardial elastography--a feasibility study in vivo.

Can changes in systolic longitudinal deformation quantify regional myocardial function after an acute infarction? An ultrasonic strain rate and strain study.

Doppler tissue velocity, strain, and strain rate imaging with transesophageal echocardiography in the operating room: a feasibility study.

Alterations of systolic left ventricular twist after acute myocardial infarction.

Processing radio frequency ultrasound images: a robust method for local spectral features estimation by a spatially constrained parametric approach.

Echocardiographic strain and strain-rate imaging: a new tool to study regional myocardial function.

Defining the transmurality of a chronic myocardial infarction by ultrasonic strain-rate imaging: implications for identifying intramural viability: an experimental study.

Quantitative assessment of intrinsic regional myocardial deformation by Doppler strain rate echocardiography in humans.

Quantification of regional right and left ventricular function by ultrasonic strain rate and strain indexes in Friedreich's ataxia.

Identification of acutely ischemic myocardium using ultrasonic strain measurements. A clinical study in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty.

Can regional strain and strain rate measurement be performed during both dobutamine and exercise echocardiography, and do regional deformation responses differ with different forms of stress testing?

Towards ultrasound cardiac image segmentation based on the radiofrequency signal.

One-dimensional ultrasonic strain and strain rate imaging: a new approach to the quantitation of regional myocardial function in patients with aortic stenosis.

Late post-repair ventricular function in patients with origin of the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk.

The sequential changes in myocardial thickness and thickening which occur during acute transmural infarction, infarct reperfusion and the resultant expression of reperfusion injury.

Strain and strain rate imaging: a new clinical approach to quantifying regional myocardial function.

RF-based two-dimensional cardiac strain estimation: a validation study in a tissue-mimicking phantom.

Ultrasonic strain/strain rate imaging--a new clinical tool to evaluate the transplanted heart.

A level set framework with a shape and motion prior for segmentation and region tracking in echocardiography.

Experimental validation of a new ultrasound method for the simultaneous assessment of radial and longitudinal myocardial deformation independent of insonation angle.

The evaluation of pulmonary hypertension using right ventricular myocardial isovolumic relaxation time.

Different deformation patterns in intracardiac tumors.

Doppler myocardial imaging in adult male rats: reference values and reproducibility of velocity and deformation parameters.

The potential clinical role of ultrasonic strain and strain rate imaging in diagnosing acute rejection after heart transplantation.

Comparison of real-time tri-plane and conventional 2D dobutamine stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease.

Statistics of the radio-frequency signal based on K distribution with application to echocardiography.

Experimental assessment of a new research tool for the estimation of two-dimensional myocardial strain.

Acute cardiac functional and morphological changes after Anthracycline infusions in children.

Regional right ventricular dysfunction in chronic pulmonary hypertension.

Myocardial dysfunction late after low-dose anthracycline treatment in asymptomatic pediatric patients.

Mechanisms of postsystolic thickening in ischemic myocardium: mathematical modelling and comparison with experimental ischemic substrates.

Full or pressure limited reperfusion of an acute myocardial infarct results in a different wall thickness and deformation of the distal myocardium--implications for clinical reperfusion strategies.

The quantification of dipyridamole induced changes in regional deformation in normal, stunned or infarcted myocardium as measured by strain and strain rate: an experimental study.

Regional myocardial deformation in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: morphological and clinical correlations.

Statistical modeling of the radio-frequency signal for partially- and fully-developed speckle based on a generalized gaussian model with application to echocardiography.

Remodeling of T-tubules and reduced synchrony of Ca2+ release in myocytes from chronically ischemic myocardium.

Detection and monitoring of cardiotoxicity-what does modern cardiology offer?

Detection of regional myocardial dysfunction in patients with acute myocardial infarction using velocity vector imaging.

Early regional myocardial dysfunction in young patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Myocardial deformation abnormalities in pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: are all etiologies identical?

Doppler myocardial imaging in the diagnosis of early systolic left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic rats.

Left ventricular strain and strain rate in a general population.

The correlation between the SOS in trabecular bone and stiffness and density studied by finite-element analysis.

Long-term blinded placebo-controlled study of SNT-MC17/idebenone in the dystrophin deficient mdx mouse: cardiac protection and improved exercise performance.

Three-dimensional cardiac strain estimation using spatio-temporal elastic registration of ultrasound images: a feasibility study.

Strain rate imaging detects early cardiac effects of pegylated liposomal Doxorubicin as adjuvant therapy in elderly patients with breast cancer.

Absence of SPARC results in increased cardiac rupture and dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction.

Improved regional function after autologous bone marrow-derived stem cell transfer in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomized, double-blind strain rate imaging study.

On the calculation of principle curvatures of the left-ventricular surfaces.

A fast convolution-based methodology to simulate 2-D/3-D cardiac ultrasound images.

Ultrastructural and functional remodeling of the coupling between Ca2+ influx and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release in right atrial myocytes from experimental persistent atrial fibrillation.

Absence of thrombospondin-2 causes age-related dilated cardiomyopathy.

The influence of left-ventricular shape on end-diastolic fiber stress and strain.

Closed-chest animal model of chronic coronary artery stenosis. Assessment with magnetic resonance imaging.

Left ventricular strain and strain rate: characterization of the effect of load in human subjects.

Prospective assessment of fetal cardiac function with speckle tracking in healthy fetuses and recipient fetuses of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

Left ventricular flow patterns in healthy subjects and patients with prosthetic mitral valves: an in vivo study using echocardiographic particle image velocimetry.

Evaluation of contractile function and inotropic reserve with tissue velocity, strain and strain rate imaging in streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

Geometric regularization for 2-D myocardial strain quantification in mice: an in-silico study.

Non-invasive characterization of the area-at-risk using magnetic resonance imaging in chronic ischaemia.

Temporal diffeomorphic free-form deformation for strain quantification in 3D-US images.

Distribution of active fiber stress at the beginning of ejection depends on left-ventricular shape.

Algorithms for ultrasound elastography: a survey.

Fast and accurate specimen-specific simulation of trabecular bone elastic modulus using novel beam-shell finite element models.

Recommendations of the European Association of Echocardiography: how to use echo-Doppler in clinical trials: different modalities for different purposes.

Absence of thrombospondin-2 increases cardiomyocyte damage and matrix disruption in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy.

Comparison of a new methodology for the assessment of 3D myocardial strain from volumetric ultrasound with 2D speckle tracking.

Ultrasound-based radial and longitudinal strain estimation of the carotid artery: a feasibility study.

Temporal diffeomorphic free-form deformation: application to motion and strain estimation from 3D echocardiography.

How to optimize intracardiac blood flow tracking by echocardiographic particle image velocimetry? Exploring the influence of data acquisition using computer-generated data sets.

Tissue Doppler indexes of left ventricular systolic function in relation to the pulsatile and steady components of blood pressure in a general population.

B-spline explicit active surfaces: an efficient framework for real-time 3-D region-based segmentation.

Exercise strain rate imaging demonstrates normal right ventricular contractile reserve and clarifies ambiguous resting measures in endurance athletes.

Unleashing the power of echocardiography: can we get closer to maximally exploiting all embedded information from the image?

Thrombospondin-2 prevents cardiac injury and dysfunction in viral myocarditis through the activation of regulatory T-cells.

Comparison of the performance of different tools for fast simulation of ultrasound data.

Automatic three-dimensional registration of intravascular optical coherence tomography images.

2D myocardial strain assessment in the mouse: a comparison between a synthetic lateral phase approach and block-matching using computer simulation.

Regional cardiac motion and strain estimation in three-dimensional echocardiography: a validation study in thick-walled univentricular phantoms.

Impact of hypertension on ventricular-arterial coupling and regional myocardial work at rest and during isometric exercise.

Real-time ultrasound simulation using the GPU.

Healing responses after bifurcation stenting with the dedicated TRYTON Side-Branch Stentâ„¢ in combination with XIENCE-Vâ„¢ stents: a clinical, angiography, fractional flow reserve, and optical coherence tomography study: the PYTON (Prospective evaluation of the TRYTON Side-Branch Stentâ„¢ with an additional XIENCE-vâ„¢ everolimus-eluting stent in coronary bifurcation lesions) study.

In regard to: "In vivo strain analysis of the intact supraspinatus tendon by ultrasound speckles tracking imaging" (Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1931-1937, May 2011).

Quantification of left ventricular volume and global function using a fast automated segmentation tool: validation in a clinical setting.

Gene-targeting of Phd2 improves tumor response to chemotherapy and prevents side-toxicity.

Comparison of conventional parallel beamforming with plane wave and diverging wave imaging for cardiac applications: a simulation study.

Current state of three-dimensional myocardial strain estimation using echocardiography.

Fast and fully automatic 3-d echocardiographic segmentation using B-spline explicit active surfaces: feasibility study and validation in a clinical setting.

Elastic image registration versus speckle tracking for 2-D myocardial motion estimation: a direct comparison in vivo.

Does rosiglitazone affect adiposity and cardiac function in genetic diabetic mice?

Fully automatic three-dimensional visualization of intravascular optical coherence tomography images: methods and feasibility in vivo.

Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Global and Regional Function in Patients with Recent Myocardial Infarction: A Comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Provisional side branch stenting: presentation of an automated method allowing online 3D OCT guidance.

The slope of the segmental stretch-strain relationship as a noninvasive index of LV inotropy.

Increased cardiac myocyte PDE5 levels in human and murine pressure overload hypertrophy contribute to adverse LV remodeling.

Elastic Image Registration to Quantify 3-D Regional Myocardial Deformation from Volumetric Ultrasound: Experimental Validation in an Animal Model.