Echocardiography in the Era of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging
Figure 4
Examples of strain imaging using speckle tracking echocardiography. On the top row are images from a normal healthy volunteer (apical 4-chamber view on the left and summary strain scores with bulls-eye plot on the right), and on the bottom row are corresponding images from a patient with severe ischaemic cardiomyopathy. Note that the healthy volunteer has normal longitudinal strain in all segments with a global strain score of −18.9%, whereas the cardiomyopathy patient has highly abnormal strains with a significantly depressed global strain score of just −5.0%.
