title: Definitions for a common standard for 2D speckle tracking echocardiography: consensus document of the EACVI/ASE/Industry Task Force to standardize deformation imaging.
abstract: Recognizing the critical need for standardization in strain imaging, in 2010, the European Association of Echocardiography (now the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) invited technical representatives from all interested vendors to participate in a concerted effort to reduce intervendor variability of strain measurement. As an initial product of the work of the EACVI/ASE/Industry initiative to standardize deformation imaging, we prepared this technical document which is intended to provide definitions, names, abbreviations, formulas, and procedures for calculation of physical quantities derived from speckle tracking echocardiography and thus create a common standard.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jens-Uwe
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Voigt
authors.affiliation: Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Gianni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pedrizzetti
authors.affiliation: GE Healthcare, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lysyansky
authors.affiliation: Menzies Research Institute of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
authors.forename: Tom H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Marwick
authors.affiliation: Siemens Medical Solutions, Ultrasound Division, Mountain View, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Houle
authors.affiliation: Tomtec Imaging Systems, Unterschleissheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baumann
authors.affiliation: Esaote S.p.A., Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pedri
authors.affiliation: Hitachi Aloka Medical Ltd, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, Tochigi-ken, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.affiliation: Philips Healthcare, Ultrasound, Andover, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Metz
authors.affiliation: SamsungMedison, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Joo Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Epsilon Imaging, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.affiliation: Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Partho P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Theodore J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Kolias
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: d'Hooge
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Gerard P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Aurigemma
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: James D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova, School of Medicine, Via Giustiniani 2, Padova 35128, Italy. Electronic address: ase@asecho.org.
authors.forename: Luigi Paolo
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Badano
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: Definitions; Deformation imaging; Echocardiography; Left ventricle; Myocardial; Speckle tracking; Standard; Strain; Strain rate; Two-dimensional