LEFT VENTRICULAR (LV) PUMPING–PERFUSION ANALYSIS: MYOCARDIAL PROPERTIES, INTRA-LV VELOCITY AND PRESSURE, DETECTION OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIC AND INFARCTED SEGMENTS, PERFUSION DEPICTION BY SPECT IMAGING, COMPUTATION OF BLOOD FLOW PRESSURE AND VELOCITY PATTERNS WITHIN MYOCARDIAL REGIONS
This chapter essentially provides an overview of LV perfusion and pumping (and connects these two LV functions), by employing different methods for characterizing: (i) pumping in terms of LV passive and active myocardial properties, as well as intra-LV flow velocity and pressure distributions; (ii) perfusion based on detection of LV myocardial ischemic and infarcted segments (by means of echocardiographic texture analysis), SPECT imaging, and computational analysis of intra-myocardial regional perfusion.