Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart with magnetization tagging provides a potentially useful new way to assess cardiac mechanical function, through revealing the local motion of otherwise indistinguishable portions of the heart wall. While still an evolving area, tagged cardiac MRI is already able to provide novel quantitative information on cardiac function. Exploiting this potential requires developing tailored methods for both imaging and image analysis. In this paper, we review some of the progress that has been made in developing such methods for tagged cardiac MRI, as well as some of the ways these methods have been applied to the study of cardiac function.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 376-393 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Medical Image Analysis |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 4 SPEC. ISS. |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2005 |
Funding
Dimitris Metaxas and a series of several students and programmers have contributed significantly to the development of tagged MRI methods in our laboratory. Grant support for this work was provided by the NIH through Grant RO1-HL-43014 and Grant RO1-LM-06638-01.
Keywords
- Cardiac function
- Heart
- Image analysis
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Tagged MRI
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
- Health Informatics
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design