Abstract
Myocardial deformation and strain can be investigated using suitably encoded cine MRI that admits disambiguation of material motion. Practical limitations currently restrict the analysis to in-plane motion in cross-sections of the heart (2D+time), but the proposed method readily generalizes to 3D+time. We propose a new, promising methodology, which departs from a multiscale algorithm that exploits local scale selection so as to obtain a robust estimate for the velocity gradient tensor field. Time evolution of the deformation tensor is governed by a first order ordinary differential equation, which is completely determined by this velocity gradient tensor field. We solve this matrix-ODE analytically, and present results obtained from healthy volunteers as well as from patient data. The proposed method requires only off-the-shelf algorithms and is readily applicable to planar or volumetric tagging MRI sampled on arbitrary coordinate grids.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 341242 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | International Journal of Biomedical Imaging |
Volume | 2010 |
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Publication status | Published - 2010 |