Contributors.

Part 1 Methodology.

1 Technical principles of tissue velocity and strain imaging methods.

2 Principles and different techniques for speckle tracking.

3 Physiologic and MRI validation of strain techniques.

4 Designation of normal ranges.

Part 2 Application to hemodynamic evaluation.

5 Assessment of filling pressure at rest.

6 Assessment of left ventricular filling pressure with stress.

Part 3 Application in Heart Failure.

7 Assessment of Systolic Heart Failure.

8 Assessment of Diastolic Heart Failure.

9 Assessment of Dyssynchrony and Its Application.

Part 4 Ischemic heart disease.

10 Experimental studies on myocardial ischemia and viability using tissue Doppler and deformation.

11 Assessment of viability.

12 Tissue velocity studies for ischemia.

13 Strain and Strain Rate Imaging in Ischemia.

Part 5 Non-coronary heart disease.

14 Tissue Doppler Echocardiography in the Assessment of Hypertensive Heart Disease.

15 Using myocardial imaging to identify and manage subclinical heart disease in diabetes mellitus and obesity.

16 Constrictive Pericarditis versus Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.

17 Use Of Myocardial Imaging To Identify And Manage Subclinical Heart Disease In Thyroid And Other Endocrine Diseases.

18 Use of myocardial imaging in valvular heart disease.

19 Use of Myocardial Imaging to Identify and Manage Systemic Diseases.

20 Assessment of RV function.

Part 6 Coming developments and Applications.

21 Atrial function.

22 3D reconstruction of strain measurement and measurement of strain in 3D.

23 Torsion.

24 Automated strain and strain rate.

25 Future applications of speckle tracking.

26 Use of Tissue Characterisation in relation to Arterial Function.

Index