Title :
Left ventricle wall motion analysis using MRI tagging
Author :
Yamamoto, Hideki ; Sano, Tetsuya ; Morito, Tsuneharu ; Ukida, Hiroyuki
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Educ., Okayama Univ.
Abstract :
In this paper, we developed a left ventricular (LV) wall motion analysis method and a display method of the LV wall motion. To know precise wall motion such as rotation or deformity, identifiable landmarks must be located on the heart. The MRI tagging makes it possible to estimate the regional wall motion noninvasively. Tagging is achieved by selective saturation pulse method. We tried to estimate the precise LV wall motion by the MRI tagging. The difference of the signal intensity between tagged and nontagged regions persisted for 400-700 milliseconds. We displayed the tag point movement of the LV wall as animation
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; cardiology; image motion analysis; medical image processing; MRI tagging; left ventricle wall motion analysis; saturation pulse method; signal intensity; Animation; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Cardiac disease; Displays; Heart; Magnetic resonance imaging; Motion analysis; Motion estimation; Tagging;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Cybernetics, 2004. ICCC 2004. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8588-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCYB.2004.1437675
