Abstract
A method to track a grid of cardiac material points in three dimensions using slice-following (SF) tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and harmonic-phase MRI is presented. A three-dimensional grid of material points on the lines of intersections of short-axis (SA) and long-axis (LA) planes is automatically tracked by combining two-dimensional pathlines that are computed on both SA and LA image planes. This process yields the true three-dimensional motion of points originating on the image plane intersections. Experimental data from normal volunteers, each obtained in four short breath-holds using the SF harmonic phase MRI pulse sequence, is presented. A validation of two-dimensional in-plane tracks using this pulse sequence on a moving phantom is also presented.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 197-208 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2007 |
Keywords
- Cardiac motion
- Cardiac strain
- HARP
- Magnetic resonance tagging
- Slice-following
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging