Figure 4From: Tissue Doppler echocardiography and biventricular pacing in heart failure: Patient selection, procedural guidance, follow-up, quantification of successAssessment of asynchrony by strain from the apical four chamber view. The sample volumes are in the basal septal and the basal lateral segments. A) Normal strain curve in a control patient. ICT = isovolumetric contraction time. B) Strain curve with asynchronous myocardial velocity in the septal (=yellow) and the lateral (=green curve) segment.Back to article page