Model-based reconstruction for real-time phase-contrast flow MRI: Improved spatiotemporal accuracy

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1082-1093

  Tan, Zhengguo ^a   Roeloffs, Volkert ^a   Voit, Dirk ^a   Joseph, Arun A ^a,b   Untenberger, Markus ^a   Merboldt, K Dietmar ^a   Frahm, Jens ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiovascular blood flow; model based reconstruction; nonlinear inverse reconstruction; phase contrast flow MRI; radial MRI; real time MRI

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

BLOOD FLOW; MODEL BASED RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR INVERSE RECONSTRUCTION; PHASE CONTRASTS; REAL-TIME MRI;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; AORTIC REGURGITATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84960193938     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26192     Document Type: Article

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