Abstract #4472
Assessment of Global Cardiac Function from Tagged Magnetic Resonance Images. Comparison with Cine MRI
Abram Makram 1 , Ayman Khalifa 1 , Hossam El-Rewaidy 2 , Ahmed Fahmy 2 , and El-Sayed H. Ibrahim 3
1
Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt,
2
Nile
University, Cairo, Egypt,
3
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Quantification of the global cardiac function from the
tagged images is challenging due to the anatomy
obstruction by the taglines and low myocardium-to-blood
contrast. In this work, a method is presented for
customized tagline removal and improving
myocardium-to-blood contrast. The proposed method is
applied on images from 12 patients to calculate global
cardiac functional parameters and compare them to those
from cine images. The results show that the proposed
method can be used to accurately estimate ventricular
volume and mass, which would allow for reduced scan-time
through measuring both regional and global cardiac
function parameters from one set of images.
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