This study presents a noninvasive echocardiographic method to analyze left ventricular fiber architecture, which may aid in future investigations of specific cardiac diseases.
We present and discuss a method to infer noninvasively information on the fibre architecture in real human left ventricle walls. The method post-processes the echocardiographic data acquired by three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography through a MatLab-based protocol, already presented, discussed and validated. Our results indicate the difference between the role of endocardial and epicardial principal strain lines, at the systolic peak, and set the bases for possible future investigations aimed to analyse the onset of specific cardiac diseases through noninvasive analysis of LV fibre architecture. Moreover, we set a rational statistical analysis to investigate the reliability of the proposed method.
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Evangelista et al. (2014) studied Left ventricular fibre architecture. Noninvasive inference of fibre architecture using 3D speckle tracking echocardiography was evaluated on Difference between endocardial and epicardial principal strain lines at the systolic peak.
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