Abstract #4529
Fully automated strain analysis from SSFP cines of the heart using non-rigid registration techniques
Yun-Jung Jack Tsai 1 , Yingmin Liu 1 , Andreas Greiser 2 , Carmel Hayes 2 , Helen Lam 1 , Chris Occleshaw 1 , Alistair Young 1 , and Brett Cowan 1
1
University of Auckland, Auckland MRI
Research Group, Auckland, New Zealand,
2
Siemens
Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
Cardiac strain quantification is important in the
assessment of regional myocardial function, and has many
different clinical applications. The current gold
standard for non-invasive myocardial strain measurement
is cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging. It is also
possible to estimate global and regional strain from
standard (non-tagged) steady-state free precession
(SSFP) cines using non-rigid registration , thereby
removing the need to acquire additional sequences. We
report an in-line implementation providing numerical
and graphical strain measurements without user
interaction as part of the standard SSFP acquisition.
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