Wall-motion based analysis of global and regional left atrial mechanics

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1765-1776

  Moyer, Christian B ^a   Helm, Patrick A ^a,b   Clarke, Christopher J ^c   Budge, Loren P ^d   Kramer, Christopher M ^e   Ferguson, John D ^e   Norton, Patrick T ^e   Holmes, Jeffrey W ^a,e  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^d BILLINGS CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Biomechanical modeling; Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Heart; Left atrium; Motion compensation and analysis; Optimization; quantification and estimation; Regional heterogeneity; Surface fitting

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIO-MECHANICAL MODELS; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LEFT ATRIUMS; REGIONAL HETEROGENEITY; SURFACE FITTING;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEART; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DISEASES;

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIAL WALL MOTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 84885094600     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2264062     Document Type: Article

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