METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CARDIAC ELASTOGRAPHY

摘要

Elastographic imaging of heart tissue may be used to provide strain images b y mapping strain magnitude to brightness and strain sign to hue and thus provi de improved clinical indication of compression and distension of heart muscle. An areal cursor may be used to obtain quantitative measurements of a strain at predetermined periods in the heart cycle. Multiple area measurements of stra in may be combined to provide a quantitative index of cardiac health.