Figure 1From: Feasibility and reference values of left atrial longitudinal strain imaging by two-dimensional speckle tracking Measurement of left atrial longitudinal strain by speckle tracking. A) The atrial endocardial border is traced by a point-and-click method; B) after automatic creation of a region of interest divided in 6 subregions, segmental tracking quality is analyzed; C) after approval by the user, segmental longitudinal strain curves are generated. The dashed curve represents the average strain.Back to article page