Log on / register
BioMed Central home | Journals A-Z | Feedback | Support | My details
Open AccessHighly AccessResearch

Feasibility and reference values of left atrial longitudinal strain imaging by two-dimensional speckle tracking

Matteo Cameli1* email, Maria Caputo1* email, Sergio Mondillo1 email, Piercarlo Ballo2 email, Elisabetta Palmerini1 email, Matteo Lisi1 email, Enzo Marino3 email and Maurizio Galderisi4 email

Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Cardiology Operative Unit, S Andrea Hospital, La Spezia, Italy

GE Healthcare, Milan, Italy

Cardioangiology Unit with CCU, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009, 7:6doi:10.1186/1476-7120-7-6

Published: 8 February 2009

Additional files


Additional file 1:

Movie 1. Colour-coded left atrial strain assessed by speckle tracking during a representative cardiac cycle.

Format: MPG Size: 1.9MB Download file

Playing the movie within this page requires QuickTime 6.4 or later and JavaScript. Read more


© 1999-2010 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Science+Business Media.