A comprehensive cardiac motion estimation framework using both untagged and 3-D tagged MR images based on nonrigid registration

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1263-1275

  Shi, Wenzhe ^a   Zhuang, Xiahai ^b   Wang, Haiyan ^a   Duckett, Simon ^f   Luong, Duy V N ^a   Tobon Gomez, Catalina ^c   Tung, Kaipin ^f   Edwards, Philip J ^d   Rhode, Kawal S ^e   Razavi, Reza S ^e   Ourselin, Sebastien ^b   Rueckert, Daniel ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Imperial College of Science ^*

Author keywords

3 D tagging; cardiac function analysis; cardiac MR imaging; cardiac registration; motion tracking; segmentation

Indexed keywords

3-D TAGGING; CARDIAC FUNCTION ANALYSIS; CARDIAC MR; CARDIAC REGISTRATION; MOTION TRACKING;

HEART; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84861894131     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2188104     Document Type: Article

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