Ultrasound techniques currently used in echocardiography are limited by conventional
frame rates. Ultrafast ultrasound imaging is able to capture images at frame rates up to 100 …

The advent of high–frame rate imaging in ultrasound allowed the development of shear
wave elastography as a noninvasive alternative for myocardial stiffness assessment. It …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of coronary ultrafast
Doppler angiography (CUDA), a novel vascular imaging technique based on ultrafast …

The objectives were to develop a novel three-dimensional technology for imaging naturally
occurring shear wave (SW) propagation, demonstrate feasibility on human volunteers and …

Singular value decomposition (SVD) has become a standard for clutter filtering of ultrafast
ultrasound datasets. Its implementation requires the choice of appropriate thresholds to …

Major cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are associated with (regional) dysfunction of the left
ventricle. Despite the 3-D nature of the heart and its dynamics, the assessment of myocardial …

Quantitative assessment of myocardial stiffness is crucial to understand and evaluate
cardiac biomechanics and function. Despite the recent progresses of ultrasonic shear wave …

Ultrasound-based shear wave elastography is a promising technique to non-invasively
assess the dynamic stiffness variations of the heart. The technique is based on tracking the …

A coupled computational method for recovering tissue velocity vector fields from high-frame-
rate echocardiography is described. Conventional transthoracic echocardiography provides …

Strain evaluation is of major interest in clinical cardiology as it can quantify the cardiac
function. Myocardial elastography, a radio-frequency (RF)-based cross-correlation method …