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Strain Imaging Echo Course 2016

08.04.2016

 

The Strain Imaging Echo Course 2016 took place in Berlin, April 7th–8th, and CardioFunXion didn’t miss it! Led by Cardiofunxion coordinator Bart Bijnens, George Sutherland and Maja Cikes, this is an intensive 2-day course with the aim of providing professionals working with strain imaging fundamental guidelines for a proper analysis of the results.

Indeed, there is far more complexity to it than just looking at some output values, as some might think. Additionally to cardiac physiology knowledge, one must also have fundamental knowledge on cardiac physics/mechanics and to be able to correlate the two, in order to aim at properly interpreting the observed strain patterns, in each particular scenario. In short, it is necessary that one knows exactly where the strain curve comes from/what it represents.

In that sense, the course started off with some notions of physics and mechanics applied to the cardiovascular system, explaining how the strain patterns of a heart with normal function should look, and most importantly, why.

Afterwards, we moved on to specific key topics (e.g. CAD, CRT, Valve Disease, Hypertrophy, Right Ventricle and Diastolic Function), always correlating pathological changes in the cardiovascular system with the changes in the obtained strain patterns. Besides some theoretical background, each topic was further illustrated with several experiments found in literature and then put in practice with the EchoPac Workstation by GE Healthcare.

In the end, a few insights on the latest technologies (e.g. high frame rate and 3D ultrasound) and their potentials were approached.

This was a very instructive course and for sure it will help all of us working with strain imaging to better perform our professional tasks. Thank you to GE Healthcare and to the speakers, for all the work behind this successful event.

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