ZHARP: Three-Dimensional Motion Tracking from a Single Image Plane

Three-dimensional imaging and quantification of myocardial function are essential steps in the evaluation of cardiac disease. We propose a tagged magnetic resonance imaging methodology called zHARP that encodes and automatically tracks myocardial displacement in three dimensions. Unlike other motion encoding techniques, zHARP encodes both in-plane and through-plane motion in a single image plane without affecting the acquisition speed. Postprocessing unravels this encoding in order to directly track the 3-D displacement of every point within the image plane throughout an entire image sequence. Experimental results include a phantom validation experiment, which compares zHARP to phase contrast imaging, and an in vivo study of a normal human volunteer. Results demonstrate that the simultaneous extraction of in-plane and through-plane displacements from tagged images is feasible.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: IPMI
• Authors: Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem, Matthias Stuber, Nael F. Osman, Jerry L. Prince
• Keywords: Image Plane, IPMI 2005, Medical Imaging, Motion Encoding Techniques, Tagged Magnetic Resonance