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By John Gorcsan III, William A. Mandarino, Lee G. Deneault, Shigeki Morita, Akihiko Kawai, Bartley P. Griffith, Robert L. Kormos. The International Journal of Cardiac Imaging 10, 103–111, June 1994. Publisher title, full byline, author affiliations and abstract verified at link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01137705 . Abstract: six excised dog hearts were perfused ex vivo; an intraventricular balloon supplied volume and a micromanometer catheter supplied pressure. Automated echocardiographic borders measured mid-ventricular short-axis area. Three volume runs in 1 mL increments per heart yielded 1,080 simultaneous observations. The experiment compared pressure-area with pressure-volume relationships; it did not establish clinical validation. Full article not inspected.

John Gorcsan III is first author of the 1994 experimental study comparing automated echocardiography with known ventricular volume and measured pressure to estimate ventricular compliance. The publisher explicitly supplies his full name. The experiment used six perfused dog hearts, an intraventricular balloon, a micromanometer catheter and computer-linked short-axis border measurements.^[ref]

The methodological question is how a two-dimensional image can track a three-dimensional chamber. The balloon supplies a volume reference, while the ultrasound boundary supplies an area; agreement must be tested rather than assumed from visual resemblance.

An original geometry example makes the distinction quantitative. Under uniform scaling of an unchanged shape, area scales as ${\lambda }^2$ and volume as ${\lambda }^3$, so $V=K{A}^{3/2}$ for a shape-dependent constant $K$. A ten-percent area increase then predicts a volume factor $1.1^{3/2}\simeq 1.1537$, rather than 1.10. This is a homothetic model, not the study's asserted ventricular shape or an independent volume measurement.

The paper reports strong correspondence between its pressure-area and pressure-volume relationships but explicitly leaves clinical application to further validation.^[ref] Gorcsan's verified contribution here is leadership of that measurement study, not a claim that every image-area change is already a calibrated volume change.