Doppler-Derived Myocardial Systolic Strain Rate Is a Strong Index of Left Ventricular Contractility

Linearity of the Frank-Starling relationship in the intact heart: the concept of preload recruitable stroke work.

1985 • 873 citations

Real-Time Strain Rate Imaging of the Left Ventricle by Ultrasound

1998 • 864 citations

Assessment of Passive Elastic Stiffness for Isolated Heart Muscle and the Intact Heart

1973 • 405 citations

Characteristics of Mitral and Tricuspid Annular Velocities Determined by Pulsed Wave Doppler Tissue Imaging in Healthy Subjects

1999 • 363 citations

Single-Beat Estimation of End-Systolic Pressure-Volume Relation in Humans

1996 • 360 citations

Influence of acute changes in preload, afterload, contractile state and heart rate on ejection and isovolumic indices of myocardial contractility in man.

1976 • 333 citations

Myocardial velocity gradient as a new indicator of regional left ventricular contraction: Detection by a two-dimensional tissue doppler imaging technique

1995 • 329 citations

Quantitative Assessment of Alterations in Regional Left Ventricular Contractility With Color-Coded Tissue Doppler Echocardiography

1997 • 312 citations

On-line assessment of ventricular function by automatic boundary detection and ultrasonic backscatter imaging

1992 • 293 citations

Influence of contractile state on curvilinearity of in situ end-systolic pressure-volume relations.

1989 • 260 citations

Comparison of measures of left ventricular contractile performance derived from pressure-volume loops in conscious dogs.

1989 • 215 citations

Myocardial velocity gradients detected by Doppler imaging

1994 • 178 citations

Assessment of Left Ventricular Systolic Wall Motion Velocity with Pulsed Tissue Doppler Imaging: Comparison with Peak dP/dt of the Left Ventricular Pressure Curve

1998 • 170 citations

Regional Mean Systolic Myocardial Velocity Estimation by Real-Time Color Doppler Myocardial Imaging: A New Technique for Quantifying Regional Systolic Function

1998 • 170 citations

Accurate systolic wall thickening by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging with tissue tagging: Correlation with sonomicrometers in normal and ischemic myocardium

1993 • 164 citations

Validation of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for quantifying left ventricular volumes in the presence of a left ventricular aneurysm: in vitro and in vivo studies

2000 • 142 citations

Influence of coronary occlusion during PTCA on end-systolic and end-diastolic pressure-volume relations in humans.

1990 • 110 citations

Peak negative myocardial velocity gradient in early diastole as a noninvasive indicator of left ventricular diastolic function

1998 • 93 citations

Simultaneous determination of left ventricular end-systolic pressure-volume and pressure-dimension relationships in closed-chest dogs.

1985 • 71 citations

Usefulness of Myocardial Velocity Gradient Derived from Two-Dimensional Tissue Doppler Imaging as an Indicator of Regional Myocardial Contraction Independent of Translational Motion Assessed in Atrial Septal Defect

1997 • 66 citations

Single-beat determination of preload recruitable stroke work relationship: derivation and evaluation in conscious dogs

2000 • 57 citations

Ventricular volume, chamber stiffness, and function after anteroapical aneurysm plication in the sheep

2000 • 49 citations

Three‐dimensional strain‐rate imaging

1996 • 32 citations

Regional epicardial and endocardial two-dimensional finite deformations in canine left ventricle

1991 • 20 citations

Assessment of left ventricular dyssynergy by color kinesis

1998 • 19 citations

Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Strain with MRI

1997 • 16 citations