Automated cardiac motion estimation from 3D Cine DENSE MRI
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Background 3D cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) directly encodes tissue displacement into MR phase data, providing a comprehensive 3D view of cardiac motion and strain. Unfortunately, 3D cine DENSE motion analysis presently requires manually delineated anatomy. An automated analysis would reduce interobserver variability, improve measurement throughput, and simplify data interpretation. This research develops the first fully automated solution for the estimation of myocardial mechanics from 3D cine DENSE data.
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