Figure 3.
Tissue Doppler echocardiography spectral curve at the level of the tricuspid annulus. The isovolumic myocardial acceleration is calculated as the difference between baseline and peak velocity (stars) during isovolumic contraction divided by their time interval. Reproduced from Vogel et al. [30] with permission from the publisher; Copyright © 2004, the American College of Cardiology Foundation.