Table 4.

The peak values of strain averaged over six regions on the septum and LV free wall as shown in Figure 4 compared to those reported by Moore et al. [29] and Young et al. [30].

	Region	Sepal Wall			Lateral (free) wall
Strain		Present method	Moore et al.	Young et al.	Present method	Moore et al.	Young et al.
ELL	Basal	-0.12	-0.14 ± 0.03	-0.14 ± 0.03	-0.22	-0.15 ± 0.03	-0.19 ± 0.04
	Equatorial	-0.17	-0.15 ± 0.03	-0.15 ± 0.02	-0.18	-0.14 ± 0.04	-0.16 ± 0.03
	Apical	-0.15	-0.18 ± 0.04	-0.19 ± 0.02	-0.22	-0.19 ± 0.03	-0.18 ± 0.03
ECC	Basal	-0.17	-0.17 ± 0.03	-0.19 ± 0.03	-0.18	-0.21 ± 0.03	-0.21 ± 0.03
	Equatorial	-0.16	-0.16 ± 0.03	-0.20 ± 0.02	-0.17	-0.22 ± 0.03	-0.21 ± 0.02
	Apical	-0.22	-0.18 ± 0.03	-0.20 ± 0.03	-0.18	-0.24 ± 0.04	-0.22 ± 0.02
ERR	Basal	0.40	0.45 ± 0.12	0.21 ± 0.10	0.58	0.52 ± 0.19	0.25 ± 0.09
	Equatorial	0.52	0.42 ± 0.19	0.16 ± 0.10	0.55	0.38 ± 0.18	0.21 ± 0.10
	Apical	0.55	0.36 ± 0.22	0.07 ± 0.06	0.64	0.49 ± 0.29	0.10 ± 0.06