Intracardiac Flow Visualization Using High-Frame Rate Blood Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: Illustrations from infants with Congenital Heart Disease
Massimiliano Cantinotti, MD1,2; Pietro Marchese, MD1,3 Martin Koestenberger, MD4; Raffaele Giordano M.D 5, Giuseppe Santoro M.D. 1; Nadia Assanta, MD1; Shelby Kutty, MD, MS, PhD6
1 Stabilimento Ospedaliero di Massa Ospedale del Cuore G Pasquinucci, Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Massa, Toscana, IT
2 Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC), National Research Institute (CNR), Pisa, Italy
3 Department of Pediatrics University of Pisa, Italy
4 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics Medical University Graz, Austria
5 University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy,
6 Johns Hopkins Medicine, Pediatrics, Baltimore, MD, USA
Running title: Blood Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in CHD
Word Count: 1264 words
Key words : vector flow echocardiography, blood speckle tracking, congenital heart disease