3D left ventricular strain from unwrapped harmonic phase measurements

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 854-862

  Venkatesh, Bharath Ambale ^a   Gupta, Himanshu ^b   Lloyd, Steven G ^b   Dell'Italia, Louis ^b   Denney Jr , Thomas S ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

3D strain; Branch cuts; Harmonic phase; Left ventricle; Phase unwrapping; Tagged magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; ALGORITHM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77950931846     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22099     Document Type: Article

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