Cardiac Motion Tracking Using CINE Harmonic Phase (HARP) Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Overview

Journal Magn Reson Med

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Radiology

Date 1999 Nov 26

PMID 10571926

Citations 217

Authors

N F Osman

W S Kerwin

E R McVeigh

J L Prince

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Abstract

This article introduces a new image processing technique for rapid analysis of tagged cardiac magnetic resonance image sequences. The method uses isolated spectral peaks in SPAMM-tagged magnetic resonance images, which contain information about cardiac motion. The inverse Fourier transform of a spectral peak is a complex image whose calculated angle is called a harmonic phase (HARP) image. It is shown how two HARP image sequences can be used to automatically and accurately track material points through time. A rapid, semiautomated procedure to calculate circumferential and radial Lagrangian strain from tracked points is described. This new computational approach permits rapid analysis and visualization of myocardial strain within 5-10 min after the scan is complete. Its performance is demonstrated on MR image sequences reflecting both normal and abnormal cardiac motion. Results from the new method are shown to compare very well with a previously validated tracking algorithm. Magn Reson Med 42:1048-1060, 1999.

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