Title :
Automated quantification of human left ventricular deformation with magnetic resonance cardiac tagging
Author :
Aelen, Fwl ; Arts, T. ; Sanders, Dgm ; Thelissen, Grp ; Muijtjens, Amm ; Prinzen, FW ; Reneman, RS
Author_Institution :
Cardiovascular Res. Inst., Maastricht, Netherlands
Abstract :
A method was developed to quantify deformation of the human cardiac left ventricle (LV) non-invasively. The authors´ primary interest was LV torsion and contraction during the ejection phase, as these may be of clinical importance. Magnetic Resonance cardiac tagging was used in 9 healthy volunteers to determine displacement, rotation and contraction of two parallel short-axis cross-sections in the LV equatorial region. Rotation angles from these cross-sections were subtracted to quantify torsion. During ejection torsion increased by 5.3±1.2 degrees (mean±sd), and the inner and outer radii decreased from 24.5±1.7 mm to 16.8±1.8 mm, and from 35.7±2.9 mm to 31.8±2.6 mm, respectively. It can be concluded that the developed method provides a highly automated means for assessment of LV torsion and contraction in humans
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical NMR; cardiology; medical image processing; motion estimation; 16.8 to 35.7 mm; automated quantification; contraction; deformation quantification; displacement; ejection phase; ejection torsion; healthy volunteers; human left ventricular deformation; magnetic resonance cardiac tagging; medical diagnostic imaging; parallel short-axis cross-sections; rotation; Band pass filters; Cardiology; Electrocardiography; Filtering; Humans; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocardium; Pixel; Tagging;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology 1995
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3053-6
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.1995.482743