Main description:

Measurement of Cardiac Deformations from MRI: Physical and Mathematical Models describes the latest imaging and imag analysis techniques that have been developed at leading centers for the visualization, analysis, and understanding of normal and abnormal cardiac motion with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The use of MRI in measuring cardiac motion is particularly important because MRI is non-invasive, and it is the only modality capable of imaging detailed intramural motion within the myocardium.
Biomedical engineers, medical physicists, computer scientists, and physicians interested in learning about the latest advances in cardiovascular MRI should find this book to be a valuable educational resource. In particular, it is more tutorial in nature than most of the technical papers where the research was originally published. Practitioners and researchers working in the field of cardiovascular MRI will find the book to be filled with practical technical details and references to other work, enabling the implementation of existing methods and serving as a basis for further research in the area.

Contents:

Contributors. Preface. 1. Regional Stress and Strain in Healthy and Diseased Ventricular Myocardium. 2. Clinical Applications of Cardiac Tagging. 3. Finite Element Modeling for Three-Dimensional Motion Reconstruction and Analysis. 4. Modeling and analysis of the RV and LV from MRI-SPAMM. 5. Motion Analysis of the Whole Heart. 6. Harmonic Phase MRI. 7. Automated Tag Detection. 8. Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images with B-spline Models. 9. MR Physics and Imaging of Phase Contrast MRI. 10. Myocardial Spatiotemporal Tracking. 11. Computational Platforms for Integrated Cardiac Image Analysis. Index.