Tracking myocardial motion from cine DENSE images using spatiotemporal phase unwrapping and temporal fitting

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-30

  Spottiswoode, B S ^a   Zhong, X ^b   Hess, A T ^a   Kramer, C M ^c   Meintjes, E M ^a   Mayosi, B M ^d   Epstein, Frederick H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); DENSE; LV function; Myocardial tagging; Phase unwrapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); LV FUNCTION; MYOCARDIAL TAGGING; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

TISSUE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846236285     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884215     Document Type: Article

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