Advanced Medical Imaging Development SRL View Institution's Website 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Magnetic Resonance Derived Myocardial Strain Assessment Using Feature Tracking Kan N. Hor1, Rolf Baumann2, Gianni Pedrizzetti3, Gianni Tonti3, William M. Gottliebson1, Michael Taylor1, D. Woodrow Benson1, Wojciech Mazur4 1The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), 2TomTec, Imaging Systems GmbH, 3AMID, Advanced Medical Imaging Development SRL, 4The Heart and Vascular Center, The Christ Hospital An accurate and practical method to measure parameters like strain in myocardial tissue is of great clinical value, since it has been shown, that strain is a more sensitive and earlier marker for contractile dysfunction than the frequently used parameter EF.
