Software package for echocardiographic quantification: Leuven (SPEQLE)

Quantification is becoming increasingly important in echocardiography. Therefore, the authors have developed a software package, called ´Speqle´, that provides an interface to different types of echocardiographic data, including radio-frequency (RF) data, video data and synchronized physiological signals, enabling manipulation of these data via an event-driven user interface. Several classical and ultrasonic tissue characterization (UTC) parameters can be calculated. Speqle has proved its usefulness in several experiments. As an illustration, three experiments are described.