| Literature DB >> 22016198 |
Peng Li1, Aiping Liu, Liang Shi, Xin Yin, Sandra Rugonyi, Ruikang K Wang.
Abstract
We present a method to assess the in vivo radial strain and strain rate of the myocardial wall, which is of great importance to understand the biomechanics of cardiac development, using tissue Doppler optical coherence tomography (tissue-DOCT). Combining the structure and velocity information acquired from tissue-DOCT, the velocity distribution in the myocardial wall is plotted, from which the radial strain and strain rate are evaluated. The results demonstrate that tissue-DOCT can be used as a useful tool to describe tissue deformation, especially, the biomechanical characteristics of the embryonic heart.Entities:
Mesh:
Year: 2011 PMID: 22016198 PMCID: PMC3296455 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Med Biol ISSN: 0031-9155 Impact factor: 3.609