TY  - JOUR
AU  - Amir A.Amini
AU  - Yasheng  Chen
AU  - Mohamed Elayyadi
AU  - Petia Radeva
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Tag Surface Reconstruction and Tracking of Myocardial Beads from SPAMM-MRI with Parametric B-Spline Surfaces
KW  - B-spline surfaces
KW  - cardiac motion
KW  - myocardial beads
KW  - myocardial infarction
KW  - tagged MRI.
N2  - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its ability to noninvasively and selectively alter tissue magnetization, and create tag planes intersecting image slices. The resulting grid of signal voids allows for tracking deformations of tissues in otherwise homogeneous-signal myocardial regions. In this paper, we propose a specific spatial modulation of magnetization (SPAMM) imaging protocol together with efficient techniques for measurement of three-dimensional (3-D) motion of material points of the human heart (referred to as myocardial beads) from images collected with the SPAMM method. The techniques make use of tagged images in orthogonal views by explicitly reconstructing 3-D B-spline surface representation of tag planes (tag planes in two orthogonal orientations intersecting the short-axis (SA) image slices and tag planes in an orientation orthogonal to the short-axis tag planes intersecting long-axis (LA) image slices). The developed methods allow for viewing deformations of 3-D tag surfaces, spatial correspondence of long-axis and short-axis image slice and tag positions, as well as nonrigid movement of myocardial beads as a function of time.
L1  - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/ACE2001.pdf
N1  - MILAB
ID  - Amir A.Amini2001
ER  -