title: Tissue Doppler and strain imaging: anything left in the echo-lab?
abstract: Medline research indicates that an increasing number of manuscripts have been published in the last decade claiming, the feasibility and the potential clinical role of tissue Doppler and strain/strain rate imaging. However, despite this amount of scientific evidence, these technologies are still confined to dedicated, high-tech, research-oriented echocardiography laboratories. In this review we have critically evaluated these techniques, analysing their physical principles, the technical problems related to their current clinical application, and the future perspectives. Finally, this review explores the reasons why these technologies are still defined "new technologies" and the impact of their implementation on the current clinical activity of an echocardiography laboratory.
authors.affiliation: Department of UTIC-Cardiology, San Luca Hospital, Vallo della Lucania (SA), Italy. citro63@libero.it
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Citro
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bossone
authors.forename: Bettina
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kuersten
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gregorio
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salustri
mesh_terms: D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000639:trends*; D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques / Q000639:trends*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000639:trends*