Abstract
The ability to measure in vivo strain and strain rate in embryonic chick heart is one of the key requirements for understanding the mechanisms of cardiac development. Due to its high temporal and spatial resolution as well as its fast imaging capability, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has the potential to reveal the complex myocardial activity in the living chick heart. We describe a method to evaluate the in vivo strain and strain rate of the myocardium through analyzing the periodic variation of the myocardial wall thickness calculated from real-time serial OCT images. The results demonstrate that OCT can be a useful tool to describe the biomechanical characteristics of the embryonic heart.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 5766020 |
Pages (from-to) | 2333-2338 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2011 |
Keywords
- Cardiac development
- embryonic chick heart
- medical and biological imaging
- myocardial strain
- optical coherence tomography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering