Job title: Consultant Cardiologist, National Amyloidosis Centre & Royal Free London Hospital, University College London, UK
In October 2009, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust hired Dr. Carol Whelan as a consultant cardiologist with expertise in imaging, heart failure, and cardiac amyloidosis. As a result of her efforts at the National Amyloidosis Centre, she has been given the title of Honorary Associate Professor at UCL. In 2011, she was named the hospital's clinical lead for heart failure. In 2018, she was…
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Author(s):
Hans Joachim Nesser
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3 years ago
Wall motion tracking is an application of pattern-matching ultrasound commonly known as speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE). STE involves creating a template image using a local myocardial region in the starting frame of the image data. In the ensuing frame, an algorithm searches for the local speckle pattern that most closely matches the template. A movement vector is then created using the…
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Job title: MD, FACC, FASE
Sharon L Mulvagh is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo College of Medicine and a Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. She is a clinical cardiologist active at international, national, local, and institutional levels in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging, specifically echocardiographic imaging using newer technologies including contrast…
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Job title: Professor of Cardiology Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
Prof James D Thomas is a Director of the Center for Heart Valve Disease at Northwestern University in Chicago. Prof James D Thomas is the past president of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), currently co-chairing a committee to standardise strain echocardiography.
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