Free-breathing diffusion tensor imaging and tractography of the human heart in healthy volunteers using wavelet-based image fusion

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 306-316

  Wei, Hongjiang ^a   Viallon, Magalie ^a   Delattre, Benedicte M A ^a   Moulin, Kevin ^a   Yang, Feng ^b   Croisille, Pierre ^a   Zhu, Yuemin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); fiber architecture; free breathing; in vivo heart

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FIBERS; HEART; IMAGE FUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TENSORS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGES; FIBER ARCHITECTURE; FREE BREATHING; IN-VIVO; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; NONRIGID REGISTRATION METHOD; POST-PROCESSING SCHEME; WAVELET BASED IMAGE FUSION;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGISTRATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; WAVELET BASED IMAGE FUSION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; HEART; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928777667     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2356792     Document Type: Article

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