Fully automated tool to identify the aorta and compute flow using phase-contrast MRI: Validation and application in a large population based study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 221-228

  Goel, Akshay ^a   McColl, Roderick ^a   King, Kevin S ^a   Whittemore, Anthony ^a   Peshock, Ronald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aorta; automatic; localization; phase contrast; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASCENDING AORTA; AUTOMATION; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION STUDY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD VOLUME DETERMINATION; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 84902379718     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24338     Document Type: Article

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