Fig. 1.
Left atrial endocardial tracking for strain assessment by feature tracking CMR, with an example of baseline and week-12 left atrial strain for a participant in MRP group. Cine 2- and 4-chamber images illustrating contoured left atrial borders at left ventricular end-diastole (upper) and left ventricular end-systole (lower). On the right, A LA strain curve at baseline and B LA strain curve at follow-up. Both curves are for the same patient and produced from tracking LA endocardium across the cardiac cycle using 4-chamber cine. LAS_cd was calculated as: LAS_r − LAS_bp (LAS_r LA strain at reservoir, LAS_cd LA strain at conduit, LAS_bp LA strain at booster-pump phase)