A new nonrigid registration framework for improved visualization of transmural perfusion gradients on cardiac first-pass perfusion MRI

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 828-831

  Khalifa, Fahmi ^a   Beache, Garth M ^b   Gimel'Farb, Georgy ^c   El Baz, Ayman ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

functional mapping; ischemic heart disease; nonrigid registration; Perfusion MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE REGISTRATION; B SPLINES; CONTRAST AGENT; CROSS SECTION; DATA SETS; FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; HEART ATTACK; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISO-CONTOURS; LEFT VENTRICLES; LOCAL ALIGNMENT; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; NORMALIZED MUTUAL INFORMATION; PERFUSION MRI; REFINEMENT STEP; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; TRANSFORMATION MODEL; TRANSMURAL PERFUSION; VISUALIZATION AND DISPLAY;

ALIGNMENT; LAPLACE EQUATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; VISUALIZATION;

HEART;

EID: 84864829791     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235676     Document Type: Conference Paper

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