Figure 5From: Tissue Doppler echocardiography and biventricular pacing in heart failure: Patient selection, procedural guidance, follow-up, quantification of success Tissue Tracking allows the visualization of longitudinal motion in each myocardial segment. Images are from the apical four chamber view. A) Normal control patient. There are normal colour-coded displacement values in the lateral and septal segments, with physiologically higher values in the more basal segments and lower values towards the apex. B) Tissue Tracking in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy. There is a dilated left ventricle with "baseball shape" and reduced displacement values and no basal-apical gradient (max displacement = 8 mm) in the septal segments and DLC in the lateral wall (no colour-coding) indicating asynchrony of the lateral wall.Back to article page