Several recent technical advances in cardiac ultrasound allow data to be acquired at a very
high frame rate. Retrospective gating, plane/diverging wave imaging, and multiline transmit …

Fetal echocardiography was initially used to detect structural anomalies but has more
recently also been proposed to assess fetal cardiac function. This review summarizes …

Objectives To assess the spatial and temporal performance of fetal myocardial speckle
tracking, using high‐frame‐rate (HFR) storing and Lagrangian strain analysis. Methods …

The assessment of cardiac pump function and the potential of local myocardium to
contribute to the overall performance are of great importance in many cardiovascular …

Assessment of myocardial strain using speckle tracking echocardiography is an emerging
echocardiographic technique that is increasingly used in the diagnosis and management of …

Purpose: Assessment of cardiac function in the fetal heart is challenging because of its small
size and high heart rate, restricted physical access to the fetus, and impossibility of fetal ECG …

Objective: To report the current status of speckle tracking techniques in evaluation of fetal
myocardial deformation. Methods: A variety of non-Doppler ultrasound methods are …

BACKGROUND: The systemic right ventricle in palliated hypoplastic left heart syndrome
(HLHS) has relatively reduced longitudinal compared with circumferential deformation, a …

Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an emerging imaging modality
for assessing the anatomy and function of the fetal heart in congenital heart disease (CHD) …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare a new technique that measures the
midventricular basal‐apical longitudinal diastolic and systolic lengths, computes the …