TY - GEN
T1 - Realistic spline-based dynamic heart phantom
AU - Segars, W. Paul
AU - Lalush, David S.
AU - Tsui, Benjamin M.W.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - We develop a realistic computerized heart phantom for use in medical imaging research. This phantom is a hybrid of realistic patient-based phantoms and flexible geometry-based phantoms. The surfaces of heart structures are defined using non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS), as used in 3D computer graphics. The NURBS primitives define continuous surfaces allowing the phantom to be defined at any resolution. Also, by fitting NURBS to patient data, the phantom is more realistic than those based on solid geometry. An important innovation is the extension of NURBS to the fourth dimension, time, to model heart motion. Points on the surfaces of heart structures were selected from a gated MRI study of a normal patient. Polygon surfaces were fit to the points for each time frame, and smoothed. 3D NURBS surfaces were fit to the smooth polygon surfaces and then a 4D NURBS surface was fit through these surfaces. Each of the principal 4D surfaces (atria, ventricles, inner and outer walls) contains approximately 200 control points. We conclude that 4D NURBS are an efficient and flexible way to describe the heart and other anatomical objects for a realistic phantom.
AB - We develop a realistic computerized heart phantom for use in medical imaging research. This phantom is a hybrid of realistic patient-based phantoms and flexible geometry-based phantoms. The surfaces of heart structures are defined using non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS), as used in 3D computer graphics. The NURBS primitives define continuous surfaces allowing the phantom to be defined at any resolution. Also, by fitting NURBS to patient data, the phantom is more realistic than those based on solid geometry. An important innovation is the extension of NURBS to the fourth dimension, time, to model heart motion. Points on the surfaces of heart structures were selected from a gated MRI study of a normal patient. Polygon surfaces were fit to the points for each time frame, and smoothed. 3D NURBS surfaces were fit to the smooth polygon surfaces and then a 4D NURBS surface was fit through these surfaces. Each of the principal 4D surfaces (atria, ventricles, inner and outer walls) contains approximately 200 control points. We conclude that 4D NURBS are an efficient and flexible way to describe the heart and other anatomical objects for a realistic phantom.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0032596336
SN - 0780350227
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
SP - 1175
EP - 1178
BT - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
PB - IEEE
T2 - Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
Y2 - 8 November 1998 through 14 November 1998
ER -