Beverly Smulevitz

TL;DR: Currently available techniques that allow quantitative assessment of myocardial function via image-based analysis of local myocardials dynamics, including Doppler tissue imaging and speckle-tracking echocardiography, as well as integrated backscatter analysis are described.

TL;DR: This document describes the current and potential clinical applications of these techniques and their strengths and weaknesses, briefly surveys a selection of the relevant published literature while highlighting normal and abnormal findings in the context of different cardiovascular pathologies, and summarizes the unresolved issues, future research priorities, and recommended indications for clinical use.

TL;DR: Adults who had JDM, 29 years after disease onset, had progressive disease and increased cardiovascular risk factors.

TL;DR: Real-time 3DE accurately measures left ventricular volumes transthoracically over a wide range of hemodynamic conditions in dogs and accurately determines EF in humans.

TL;DR: A novel methodology has been developed to evaluate regional alterations in arterial wall material properties with induced atheroma in an animal model and demonstrates stiffening vascular wall elastic modulus with lesion progression.