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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2007 May 3;33(6):842–850. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.11.003

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The relation between KFEI and chamber stiffness (k) in the same subjects as in Figure 2, whose E-waves are fit by ‘underdamped’ kinematics (c2<4k) (19 non-diabetics = open circles, 13 diabetics = solid circles). Black circles denote non-diabetic subjects, solid circles denote diabetic subjects. Note tendency of solid circles to reside near the bottom of the figure. KFEI as a function of k, for three different, but constant, values of viscoelasticity/relaxation c are also shown (mean = 20.3/s solid; mean + 1SD = 26.2/s dashed, mean−1SD= 14.4/s dashed). Consider the 6 data points (3 solid circles, 3 open circles) closest to the solid line, e.g. 6 data points with c values very near c=20.3/s (within the black rectangle), Note k values for these 6 subjects are quite different, ranging from 150 (1/s2) to 300 (1/s2). This illustrates the effect of k on KFEI when c is essentially unchanged. For these 6 subjects c would not differentiate between the groups as well as KFEI. See text for details.