Title :
Heart-muscle fiber reconstruction from diffusion tensor MRI
Author :
Zhukov, Leonid ; Barr, Alan H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Inst. of Technol., USA
Abstract :
In this paper we use advanced tensor visualization techniques to study 3D diffusion tensor MRI data of a heart. We use scalar and tensor glyph visualization methods to investigate the data and apply a moving least squares (MLS) fiber tracing method to recover and visualize the helical structure and the orientation of the heart muscle fibers.
Keywords :
adaptive filters; biomedical MRI; digital simulation; magnetic resonance imaging; medical image processing; solid modelling; tensors; 3D diffusion tensor MRI data; fiber tracing; heart-muscle fiber reconstruction; magnetic resonance imaging; moving least squares; scalar and tensor glyph visualization; tensor visualization; Cells (biology); Data visualization; Diffusion tensor imaging; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Ellipsoids; Heart; Least squares methods; Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscles; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 2003. VIS 2003. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8120-3
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250425
