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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Jul;9(7):10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004426 e004426. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.004426

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Analysis for the tagged cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging with a sample circumferential strain curve. A: Tagged short-axis images with 2 orthogonally oriented parallel striped tags at basal (1,4), midventricular (2, 5), and apical (3,6) levels. B: Imaging analysis–epicardial, endocardial and midwall borders of tagged LV wall image through an entire cardiac cycle. C: Color map showing pixelwise distribution of circumferential strain – more negative values indicate greater contraction. The values from the blood pool are extremely noise. D: Circumferential strain curves with each curve representing a segment.