Ahmed Amr Harouni1, Tamer A. Basha1,
Monda L. Shehata2, Nael Fakhry Osman1,2
1Electrical and computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States; 2Department
of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Many
techniques have been proposed for real-time interactive cardiac MR imaging.
However, most of these techniques are limited to only the anatomical
information. In this work, we propose to use fast strain-Encoded functional
imaging technique to acquire real-time images then use a fully automated
segmentation algorithm to provide online anatomical and functional
information of regional myocardial regions. This can be useful in real-time
monitoring of cardiac strain changes during either stress test, valsalva
exercise or interventional operations.