Towards automating cine DENSE MRI image analysis : segmentation, tissue tracking and strain computation

Over the past two decades, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has developed into a powerful imaging tool for the heart. Imaging cardiac morphology is now commonplace in clinical practice, and a plethora of quantitative techniques have also arisen on the research front. Myocardial tagging is an established quantitative cardiac MRI method that involves magnetically tagging the heart with a set of saturated bands, and monitoring the deformation of these bands as the heart contracts.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Biomedical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Spottiswoode, Bruce Shawn

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Meintjes, Ernesta
• Mayosi, Bongani

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3204

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/3204