Figure 6

Examples of quantification of simultaneous blood flow velocity (top) and myocardial motion (middle) during one cardiac cycle. The corresponding electrocardiogram (ECG) can be seen in the bottom figure. The peak diastolic velocities are indicated as E and E’ for blood flow and myocardial tissue respectively. The peak of the tissue velocity preceded the peak of the blood flow in the healthy subject (left side), while the patient presented syncronized peaks (right side). The healthy subject also had higher velocities than the patient. These findings were expected.