Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Speckle Tracking Echocardiography (STE) is a unique echocardiographic imaging technique that analyzes motion within an ultrasonic window by tracking interference patterns and natural acoustic reflections. These reflections, also described as ''speckles'', ''markers'', ''patterns'', ''features'', or ''fingerprints'' are tracked consecutively frame to frame and ultimately resolved into angle-independent two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional strain-based sequences (3D). These sequences provide both quantitative and qualitative information regarding tissue deformation and motion.