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A clinical feasibility study of atrial and ventricular electromechanical wave imaging.
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- Non-invasive Characterization of Focal Arrhythmia with Electromechanical Wave Imaging in Vivo.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2018Article
- Noninvasive Imaging of the Coronary Vasculature Using Ultrafast Ultrasound.JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2018Article
- Electromechanical wave imaging and electromechanical wave velocity estimation in a large animal model of myocardial infarction.Physics in medicine and biology · 2017Article
- Technical Note: A 3-D rendering algorithm for electromechanical wave imaging of a beating heart.Medical physics · 2017Article
- Cardiac Strain Imaging With Coherent Compounding of Diverging Waves.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2017Article
- Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease Using Myocardial Elastography with Diverging Wave Imaging: Validation against Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Coronary Angiography.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2017Article
- Imaging the dynamics of cardiac fiber orientation in vivo using 3D Ultrasound Backscatter Tensor Imaging.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- Imaging the Propagation of the Electromechanical Wave in Heart Failure Patients with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundCardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and atrial ablation procedures currently lack a noninvasive imaging modality for reliable treatment planning and monitoring. Electromechanical wave imaging (EWI) is an ultrasound-based method that has previously been shown to be capable of noninvasively and transmurally mapping the activation sequence of the heart in animal studies by estimating and imaging the electromechanical wave, that is, the transient strains occurring in response to the electrical activation, at both high temporal and spatial resolutions.
objectiveTo demonstrate the feasibility of transthoracic EWI for mapping the activation sequence during different cardiac rhythms in humans.
methodsEWI was perfor`med in patients undergoing CRT and a left bundle branch block (LBBB) during sinus rhythm, left ventricular pacing, and right ventricular pacing, as well as in patients with atrial flutter (AFL) before intervention, EWI findings from patients with AFL were subsequently correlated with results from invasive intracardiac electrical mapping studies during intervention. In addition, the feasibility of single-heartbeat EWI at 2000 frames/s is demonstrated in humans for the first time in a patient with both AFL and right bundle branch block (RBBB).
resultsThe electromechanical activation maps demonstrated the capability of EWI to localize the pacing sites and characterize the bundle branch block activation sequence transmurally in patients with CRT. In patients with AFL, the EWI propagation patterns obtained with EWI were in excellent agreement with those obtained from invasive intracardiac mapping studies.
conclusionsOur findings demonstrate the potential capability of EWI to aid in the assessment and follow-up of patients undergoing CRT pacing therapy and atrial ablation, with preliminary validation in vivo.
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