Nils Karlsson1, Klaus J. Kirchberg2,
Li Pan1, Aaron J. Flammang1, Christine H. Lorenz1,
Wesley Gilson1
1Center for Applied Medical
Imaging, Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research, Baltimore, MD, United
States; 2Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporation,
Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States
In the context of virtual endoscopy we present and validate a method for automatically creating a 4D model of the human aorta from arbitrary real-time MR slices. An aorta model of a healthy volunteer was created and validated against a set of high-resolution cine images of the same subject.