Abstract #0627

System for Validating MRI-based Myocardial Stiffness Estimation Techniques Using 3D-Printed Heart Phantoms

Fikunwa O. Kolawole^1,2, Tyler Edward Cork^2,3,4, Michael Loecher^2,3, Judith Zimmermann^3,5, Seraina A. Dual³, Marc E. Levenston^1,3, and Daniel B. Ennis^2,3

¹Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, ²Radiology, Veterans Administration Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States, ³Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, ⁴Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, ⁵Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Cardiac MRI and finite element based techniques can be used to obtain subject-specific myocardial material properties. Verifying the accuracy and precision of these techniques requires overcoming the challenge of obtaining ground-truth in vivo myocardial stiffness estimates. This work presents a highly controlled in vitro diastolic filling setup incorporating a 3D-printed heart phantom developed with myocardial tissue-mimicking material of known mechanical and MRI properties. The setup enables acquisition of the data needed to estimate myocardial stiffness in computational models: phantom geometry, loading pressures, boundary conditions, and filling strains. This setup is designed to enable extensive validation of myocardial stiffness estimation frameworks.

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