Reconstruction of 3-D Dense Cardiac Motion from Tagged MRI Sequences

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Reconstruction of 3-D Dense Cardiac Motion from Tagged MRI Sequences. Hsun-Hsien Chang and Jos é M.F. Moura Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yijen Wu , Kazuya Sato , and Chien Ho Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Reconstruction of 3-D Dense Cardiac Motion from Tagged MRI Sequences

Hsun-Hsien Chang and José M.F. MouraDept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yijen Wu, Kazuya Sato, and Chien HoPittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Work supported by NIH grants (R01EB/AI-00318 and P4EB001977)

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Outline

• Introduction

• Methodology: Prior knowledge + MRI data– Myocardial Fiber Based Structure– Continuum Mechanics– Constrained Energy Minimization

• Results and Conclusions

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N slices

M frames per slice

Y. Sun, Y.L. Wu, K. Sato, C. Ho, and J.M.F. Moura, Proc. Annual Meeting ISMRM 2003

sparse displacements

2-D Cardiac MRI Images

dense displacements

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3-D Reconstruction: myocardial fiber model

Use a fiber based model to find the correspondence between transversal slices.

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3-D Reconstruction: fiber deformation model

Use continuum mechanics to describe the motion of fibers.

Fit the model to MRI data by constrained energy minimization

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Outline

• Introduction

• Methodology: Prior knowledge + MRI data– Myocardial Fiber Based Structure– Continuum Mechanics– Constrained Energy Minimization

• Results and Conclusions

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Endocardium

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Mid-wall

Epicardium

Prior Knowledge: myocardial anatomy

Streeter, in Handbook of Physiology Volume 1: the Cardiovascular System, American Physiological Society, 1979

Multiple-layer view:

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a(t) da(t)a(t)+da(t)

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Prior Knowledge: fiber dynamics

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Deformation Gradient Matrix

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Strain

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• When strain is small, it is approximated as

• Strain is the displacement per unit length, and is written mathematically as

Ref: Y.C. Fung, A First Course in Continuum Mechanics, 3rd ed., Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1994

(Note: S is symmetric)

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Linear Strain Energy Model

• S is symmetric, so we vectorize the entries at upper triangle.

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• Let C describe the material properties. It can be shown the linear strain energy is

• The entire energy of the heart:

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Constrained Energy Minimization

• Internal energy: continuum mechanics governs the fibers to move as smooth as possible.

fibers segments

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• External energy: pixel intensities of fibers should be kept similar across time.

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2-D Displacement Constraints

)()()(),( 21 UUUU conextint EEEE

D: 2-D displacements of the taglines

ӨU: picks the entries of U corresponding to D

2-D displacement constraints: ӨU=D

λ: Lagrange multiplier

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21 )()(),( DΘUUUU extint EEE

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Outline

• Introduction

• Methodology: Prior knowledge + MRI data– Myocardial Fiber Based Structure– Continuum Mechanics– Constrained Energy Minimization

• Results and Conclusions

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4 slices

10 frames per sliceData Set

256256 pixels per image

Y. Sun, Y.L. Wu, K. Sato, C. Ho, and J.M.F. Moura, Proc. Annual Meeting ISMRM 2003

Transplanted rats with heterotropic working hearts.

MRI scans performed on a Bruker AVANCE DRX 4.7-T system

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Whole left ventricle

endocardium mid-wall epicardium

Fiber Based Model

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3-D Reconstruction of the Epicardium

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Conclusions

• Take into account the myocardial fiber based structure.

• Adopt the continuum mechanics framework.

• Implement constrained energy minimization algorithms.

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