Automated motion estimation for 2-D cine DENSE MRI

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1669-1681

  Gilliam, Andrew D ^a   Epstein, Frederick H ^b  

^a A D Gilliam Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE); Heart; Image analysis magnetic resonance (MR); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Radial basis functions (RBF); Strain; Tissue tracking

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED SOLUTIONS; CARDIAC; CARDIAC MECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISPLACEMENT ENCODING WITH STIMULATED ECHOES; MOTION ANALYSIS; PHASE IMAGE; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; TISSUE DISPLACEMENT; TISSUE MOTION; TISSUE TRACKING;

AUTOMATION; DATA PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEART; IMAGE CODING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; STRAIN; TISSUE;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84867537045     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2195194     Document Type: Article

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