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

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

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

scientific article published in February 2009

A model based approach to estimate contractile force development using myocardial velocity imaging: a validation study during alterations in contractility and heart rate

Abscess in infective endocarditis: the value of transesophageal echocardiography and outcome: a 5-year study.

scientific article published in November 2007

Accuracy of Echocardiography to Evaluate Pulmonary Vascular and RV Function During Exercise

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

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

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Altered adrenergic response in myocytes bordering a chronic myocardial infarction underlies in vivo triggered activity and repolarization instability

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Anatomical Image Registration Using Volume Conservation to Assess Cardiac Deformation From 3D Ultrasound Recordings

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Automatic mitral annulus tracking in volumetric ultrasound using non-rigid image registration

scientific article published in August 2015

Can body surface microvolt T-wave alternans distinguish concordant and discordant intracardiac alternans?

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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?

scientific article published in April 2003

Cardiac magnetic resonance dual bolus myocardial perfusion quantification superior to the single bolus analysis method

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Cardiac resynchronization therapy can reverse abnormal myocardial strain distribution in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block

scientific article published in August 2003

Cellular mechanisms of contractile dysfunction in hibernating myocardium

scientific article published on 4 March 2004

Changes in systolic left ventricular function in isolated mitral regurgitation. A strain rate imaging study.

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

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

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

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

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Consistent regional heterogeneity of passive diastolic stretch and systolic deformation in the healthy heart: age-related changes in left ventricle contractility.

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Cyclosporine A reduces microvascular obstruction and preserves left ventricular function deterioration following myocardial ischemia and reperfusion.

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

scientific article published in February 2003

Deformation imaging describes right ventricular function better than longitudinal displacement of the tricuspid ring

scientific article published on 30 August 2009

Determining optimal noninvasive parameters for the prediction of left ventricular remodeling in chronic ischemic patients

scientific article published on 01 December 2013

Differential changes in regional right ventricular function before and after a bilateral lung transplantation: an ultrasonic strain and strain rate study

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Differential effects of lumbar and thoracic epidural anaesthesia on the haemodynamic response to acute right ventricular pressure overload.

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Differential effects of progenitor cell populations on left ventricular remodeling and myocardial neovascularization after myocardial infarction

scientific article published in May 2010

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

scientific article published in January 2010

Do we understand who benefits from resynchronisation therapy?

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Early or deferred cardiovascular magnetic resonance after ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction for effective risk stratification

scientific article published on 20 July 2019

Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular untwist rate: comparison of tissue Doppler and speckle tracking methodologies.

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

Effect of respiration on cardiac filling at rest and during exercise in Fontan patients: A clinical and computational modeling study

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

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

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

Evaluation of state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms for left ventricle infarct from late Gadolinium enhancement MR images

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Exercise pathophysiology and sildenafil effects in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction is associated with ventricular arrhythmias in endurance athletes

scientific article published on 02 June 2015

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

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Feasibility of strain and strain rate imaging for the assessment of regional left atrial deformation: a study in normal subjects

scientific article published on 28 July 2005

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

scientific article published on 23 August 2007

Functional and molecular correlative imaging in a patient with amyloidosis

scientific article published on 20 September 2015

Further insights into blood pressure induced premature beats: Transient depolarizations are associated with fast myocardial deformation upon pressure decline

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Geometric assessment of asymmetric septal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by CMR

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

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

scientific article published in July 2010

Histological correlate of a cardiac magnetic resonance imaged microvascular obstruction in a porcine model of ischemia-reperfusion

scientific article published on 22 September 2011

How to distinguish between ischemic and nonischemic postsystolic thickening: a strain rate imaging study

scientific article published in January 2006

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

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Imaging hemodynamics: the next frontier for CMR

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Impact of active smoking on myocardial infarction severity in reperfused ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients. The smoker's paradox revisited by CMR.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Impact of active smoking on myocardial infarction severity in reperfused ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients: the smoker's paradox revisited

scientific article published on 24 January 2016

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

scientific article published on 23 December 2008

In utero exposure to chemotherapy: effect on cardiac and neurologic outcome

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

In vitro, in vivo and numerical assessment of the working principle of the truCCOMS continuous cardiac output catheter system

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Incremental value of the en face view of the tricuspid valve by two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiography for accurate identification of tricuspid valve leaflets

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Infective endocarditis: changing epidemiology and predictors of 6-month mortality: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 07 December 2006

Influence of left-ventricular shape on passive filling properties and end-diastolic fiber stress and strain

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Interaction between respiration and right versus left ventricular volumes at rest and during exercise: a real-time cardiac magnetic resonance study

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Interventricular interaction as a possible mechanism for the presence of a biphasic systolic velocity profile in normal left ventricular free walls

scientific article published on 05 November 2007

Investigating cardiac function using motion and deformation analysis in the setting of coronary artery disease.

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

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Left-ventricular shape determines intramyocardial mechanical heterogeneity

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Long-Term Incremental Prognostic Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance After ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Study of the Collaborative Registry on CMR in STEMI.

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

scientific article published on 30 July 2007

Methicillin-resistant versus methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis.

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Microvolt T-wave alternans and beat-to-beat variability of repolarization during early postischemic remodeling in a pig heart

scientific article published on 19 February 2011

Myocardial Dysfunction Late After Low-Dose Anthracycline Treatment in Asymptomatic Pediatric Patients

scientific article published on 02 July 2007

Myocardial deformation abnormalities in patients with aortic regurgitation: a strain rate imaging study

scientific article published on 25 June 2008

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

scientific article published on 27 April 2008

New aspects of the ventricular septum and its function: an echocardiographic study.

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

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

Nosocomial infective endocarditis: should the definition be extended to 6 months after discharge

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Numerical assessment of the impact of a flow wire on its velocity measurements

scientific article published in July 2006

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

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Outcome of patients requiring valve surgery during active infective endocarditis

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Partial mechanical circulatory support in an ovine model of post-infarction remodeling.

scientific article published in August 2013

Placental growth factor 2--A potential therapeutic strategy for chronic myocardial ischemia

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Placental growth factor increases regional myocardial blood flow and contractile function in chronic myocardial ischemia

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Principles of cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking and echocardiographic speckle tracking for informed clinical use.

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Quantification of regional right and left ventricular function by ultrasonic strain rate and strain indexes after surgical repair of tetralogy of fallot

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

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

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Quantifying myocardial deformation throughout the cardiac cycle: a comparison of ultrasound strain rate, grey-scale M-mode and magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Real-time 3D interactive segmentation of echocardiographic data through user-based deformation of B-spline explicit active surfaces.

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Reduced force generating capacity in myocytes from chronically ischemic, hibernating myocardium

scientific article published on 18 January 2007

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

scientific article published in April 2012

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

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Regional right ventricular dysfunction in chronic pulmonary hypertension

scientific article published on 13 June 2007

Relationship between Abdominal Pressure, Pulmonary Compliance, and Cardiac Preload in a Porcine Model

scientific article published on 20 February 2012

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

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Reproduction of continuous flow left ventricular assist device experimental data by means of a hybrid cardiovascular model with baroreflex control.

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Response to letter regarding article, "Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: a new gold standard for ventricular volume quantification during high-intensity exercise"

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Right ventricular and pulmonary vascular reserve in asymptomatic BMPR2 mutation carriers.

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Right ventricular fatigue developing during endurance exercise: an exercise cardiac magnetic resonance study.

scientific article published in September 2014

Right ventricular suction: an important determinant of cardiac performance

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Risk factors for infective endocarditis and outcome of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

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Shared versus non-shared prepulse perfusion MR sequence in absolute myocardial perfusion quantification

Sildenafil improves exercise hemodynamics in Fontan patients

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

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

scientific article published in July 2004

Subepicardial delayed gadolinium enhancement in asymptomatic athletes: let sleeping dogs lie?

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

T-Wave Alternans Is Linked to Microvascular Obstruction and to Recurrent Coronary Ischemia After Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

The feasibility of ultrasonic regional strain and strain rate imaging in quantifying dobutamine stress echocardiography.

scientific article published in June 2003

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

scientific article published in January 2009

The influence of pulmonary regurgitation on regional right ventricular function in children after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

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

scientific article published on 23 May 2006

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

scientific article published on 2 October 2007

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

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

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

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

The use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnostic workup and treatment of atrial fibrillation.

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Thoracic epidural anaesthesia disrupts the protective mechanism of homeometric autoregulation during right ventricular pressure overload by cardiac sympathetic blockade: a randomised controlled animal study.

scientific article published in July 2011

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

scientific article published in November 2008

Three-dimensional rotational angiography fused with multimodal imaging modalities for targeted endomyocardial injections in the ischaemic heart.

scientific article published on 3 March 2014

Toward understanding response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: left ventricular dyssynchrony is only one of multiple mechanisms

scientific article published on 11 November 2008

Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: standardization efforts based on synthetic ultrasound data

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Ultrasonic strain rate and strain imaging of the right ventricle in children before and after percutaneous closure of an atrial septal defect

scientific article published in August 2006

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

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

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

scientific article published in October 2011

Unsupervised respiratory signal extraction from ungated cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at rest and during exercise

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Velocity and deformation imaging for the assessment of myocardial dysfunction.

scientific article published on 20 December 2008