Geometric regularization for 2-d myocardial strain quantification in mice: An in-silico study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1157-1168

  Kremer, Florence ^a   Choi, Hon Fai ^a   Langeland, Stian ^b   D'Agostino, Emiliano ^a   Claus, Piet ^a   D'hooge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GE Vingmed   (Norway)

Author keywords

2 D speckle tracking; Geometric regularization; Mouse; Myocardial strain

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; CURVATURE METHOD; DATA SETS; DECORRELATIONS; FRAME RATE; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN METHODS; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEART RATES; IN-SILICO; LATERAL MOTION; MOTION ESTIMATES; MOTION FIELDS; MYOCARDIAL MOTION; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; NORMAL MODEL; RADIAL STRAINS; REGULARIZATION METHODS; RMS ERRORS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SIMULATED DATASETS; SPATIAL CURVATURE; SPECKLE TRACKING; STRAIN ESTIMATION;

DYNAMIC LOADS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; SPECKLE;

STRAIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 77953905115     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Amundsen B.H., Helle-Valle T., Edvardsen T., Torp H., Crosby J., Lyseggen E., Støylen A., Ihlen H., Lima J.A.C., MD, Smiseth O.A., Slørdahl S.A. Noninvasive myocardial strain measurement by speckle tracking echocardiography validation against sonomicrometry and tagged magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006, 47:789-793.
2. Bohs L.N., Trahey G.E. A novel method for angle independent ultrasonic imaging of blood flow and tissue motion. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 1991, 38:280-286.
3. Choi H.F., D'hooge J., Rademakers F.E., Claus P. The influence of left-ventricular shape on end-diastolic fiber stress and strain. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2009, 1:2887-2890.
4. D'hooge J., Bijnens B., Thoen J., Van de Werf F., Sutherland G.R., Suetens P. Echocardiographic strain and strain rate imaging: A new tool to study regional myocardial function. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2002, 21:1022-1030.
5. D'hooge J., Konofagou E., Jamal F., Heimdal A., Barrios L., Bijnens B., Thoen J., Van de Werf F., Sutherland G., Suetens P. Two-dimensional ultrasonic strain rate measurement of the human heart in vivo. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2002, 49:281-286.
6. D'hooge J., Thijs D., Sipido K.R., Claus P., Bijnens B., Thoen J., Van de Werf F., Sutherland G.R., Suetens P. Ultrasonic strain and strain rate imaging assessment of regional myocardial function in mice. Proc IEEE Ultrasonics Symp 2004, 470-473.
7. Fischer B, Modersitzki J. A unified approach to fast image registration and a new curvature based registration technique. Preprint A-02-07, Institute of Mathematics, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany, 2002.
8. Foster F.S., Mehi J., Lukacs M., Hirson D., White C., Chaggares C., Needles A. A new 15-50 MHz array-based micro-ultrasound scanner for preclinical imaging. Ultrasound Med Biol 2009, 35:1700-1708.
9. Gao H., Choi H.F., Claus P., Boonen S., Jaecques S., Van Lenthe G.H., Van der Perre G., Lauriks W., D'hooge J. A fast convolution-based methodology to simulate 2D/3D cardiac ultrasound images. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2009, 56:404-409.
10. James J.F., Hewett T.E., Robbins J. Cardiac physiology in transgenic mice. Circ Res 1998, 82:407-415.
11. Kallel F., Ophir J. A least-squares strain estimator for elastography. Ultrasonic Imaging 1997, 19:195-208.
12. Konofagou E., Ophir J. A new elastographic method for estimation and imaging of lateral displacements, lateral strains, corrected axial strains and Poisson's ratios in tissues. Ultrasound Med Biol 1998, 24:1183-1199.
13. Langeland S., D'hooge J., Claessens T., Claus P., Verdonck P., Suetens P., Sutherland G.R., Bijnens B. RF-based two-dimensional cardiac strain estimation: A validation study in a tissue mimicking phantom. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2004, 51:1537-1546.
14. Langeland S., D'hooge J., Wouters P., Leather A., Claus P., Bijnens B., Sutherland G.R. Experimental validation of a new ultrasound method for the simultaneous assessment of radial and longitudinal myocardial deformation independent of insonation angle. Circulation 2005, 112:2157-2162.
15. Langeland S., Claus P., Rademakers F., D'hooge J. Feasibility of two-dimensional strain imaging in mice: A pilot study. Eur J Echocardiogr Abstracts Supplement 2006.
16. Langeland S., Wouters P.F., Claus P., Leather H.A., Bijnens B., Sutherland G.R., Rademakers F.E., D'hooge J. Experimental assessment of a new research tool for the estimation of two-dimensional myocardial strain. Ultrasound Med Biol 2006, 32:1509-1513.
17. Lee W.N., Qian Z., Tosti C.L., Brown T.R., Metaxas D.N., Konofagou E.E. Preliminary validation of angle-independent myocardial elastography using MR tagging in a clinical setting. Ultrasound Med Biol 2008, 34:1980-1997.
18. Li Y., Garson C.D., Xu Y., Beyers R.J., Epstein F.H., French B.A., Hossack J.A. Quantification and MRI validation of regional cardiac contractile dysfunction in mice post myocardial infarction using high resolution ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2007, 33:894-904.
19. Lopata R.G.P., Nillesen M.M., Gerrits I.H., Thijssen J.M., Kapusta L., de Korte C.L. 4D cardiac strain imaging: Methods and initial results. Proc IEEE Ultrasonics Symp 2007, 872-875.
20. Oosterveld J., Thijssen J.M., Verhoef W.A. Texture of B-mode echograms: 3-D simulations and experiments of the effects of diffraction and scatterer density. Ultrasonic Imaging 1985, 7:142-160.
21. Peng Y., Popovic Z.B., Sopko N., Drinko J., Zhang Z., Thomas J.D., Penn M.S. Speckle tracking echocardiography in the assessment of mouse models of cardiac dysfunction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2009, 297:811-820.
22. Pirat B., Khoury D.S., Hartley C.J., Tiller L., Rao L., Schulz D.G., Nagueh S.F., Zoghbi W.A. A novel feature-tracking echocardiographic method for the quantification of regional myocardial function: Validation in an animal model of ischemia-reperfusion. J Am Coll Cardiol 2008, 51:651-659.
23. Rappaport D., Adam D., Lysyansky P., Riesner D. Assessment of myocardial regional strain and strain rate by tissue tracking in B-mode echocardiograms. Ultrasound Med Biol 2006, 32:1181-1192.
24. Sebag I.A., Handschumacher M.D., Ichinose F., Morgan J.G., Hataishi R., Rodrigues A.C.T., Guerrero J.L., Steudel W., Raher M.J., Halpern E.F., Derumeaux G., Bloch K.D., Picard M.H., Scherrer-Crosbie M. Quantitative assessment of regional myocardial function in mice by tissue Doppler imaging. Circulation 2005, 111:2611-2616.
25. Sutherland G.R., Di Salvo G., Claus P., D'hooge J., Bijnens B. Strain and strain rate imaging: A new clinical approach to quantifying regional myocardial function. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2004, 17:788-802.
26. Villarreal F.J., Lew W.Y., Waldman L.K., Covell J.W. Transmural myocardial deformation in the ischemic canine left ventricle. Circ Res 1991, 68:368-381.
27. Viola F., Walker W.F. A new algorithm for continuous time delay estimation using sampled data. Proc IEEE Ultrasonics Symp 2003, 1834-1838.
28. Waks E., Prince J., Douglas A. Cardiac motion simulator for tagged MRI. Proc IEEE Workshop Math Methods Biomed Image Anal (MMBIA) 1996, 182-191.
29. Winter R., Jussila R., Nowak J., Brodin L.A. Speckle tracking echocardiography is a sensitive tool for the detection of myocardial ischemia: A pilot study from the catheterization laboratory during percutaneous coronary intervention. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2007, 20:974-981.