Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, P.O.B. 909 Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0909, USA
Cheng Yi
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey P.O. Box 909 Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0909, USA
Raymond Iezzi Jr.
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, P.O.B. 909 Piscataway, NJ, 08855-0909, USA
Daniel M. Shindler
Dept. of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension UMDNJ-RWJMS, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, CN-19 New Brunswick, NJ 08903-0019, USA
John B. Kostis
John G. Detwiler Professor of Cardiology, Medicine and Pharmacology, Dept. of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Place CN-19 New Brunswick, NJ, 08903-0019, USA
Myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The currently available techniques for diagnosis are accurate enough but suffer from certain drawbacks such as accurate quantitative measure of severity, extent and precise location of the infarction. Since the acoustic properties in the damaged region are usually changing, one can study them by the use of ultrasound.