Title :
Using tagged MRI to reconstruct a 3D heartbeat
Author :
Haber, Idith ; Metaxas, Dimitris N. ; Axel, Leon
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Cardiac Surg., Children´´s Hosp., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tissue tagging is a decade-old method that lets scientists follow the motion of a beating heart. The method described in this paper reconstructs 3D motion from multiple 2D MRI images to find new information about the right ventricle
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cardiology; image motion analysis; image reconstruction; medical image processing; 3D heartbeat reconstruction; beating heart motion; magnetic resonance imaging; multiple 2D MRI images; right ventricle; tagged MRI; tissue tagging; Blood; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Geometry; Heart beat; Image reconstruction; Kinematics; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motion analysis; Solid modeling;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/5992.877384
