title: Strain imaging in echocardiography: converging on congruence?
authors.affiliation: Center for Heart Valve Disease, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: jthomas8@nm.org.
authors.forename: James D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*