Accelerated circumferential strain quantification of the left ventricle using CIRCOME: simulation and factor analysis

Abbas N. Moghaddam; J. Paul Finn M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.770891

12 March 2008 Accelerated circumferential strain quantification of the left ventricle using CIRCOME: simulation and factor analysis

Abbas N. Moghaddam, J. Paul Finn M.D.

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Proceedings Volume 6916, Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images; 691604 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.770891
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Circumferential strain of the left ventricle reflects myocardial contractility and is considered a key index of cardiac function. It is also an important parameter in the quantitative evaluation of heart failure. Circumferential compression encoding, CIRCOME, is a novel method in cardiac MRI to evaluate this strain non-invasively and quickly. This strain encoding technique avoids the explicit measurement of the displacement field and does not require calculation of strain through spatial differentiation. CIRCOME bypasses these two time-consuming and noise sensitive steps by directly using the frequency domain (k-space) information from radially tagged myocardium, before and after deformation. It uses the ring-shaped crown region of the k-space, generated by the taglines, to reconstruct circumferentially compression-weighted images of the heart before and after deformation. CIRCOME then calculates the circumferential strain through relative changes in the compression level of corresponding regions before and after deformation. This technique can be implemented in 3D as well as 2D and may be employed to estimate the overall global or regional circumferential strain. The main parameters that affect the accuracy of this method are spatial resolution, signal to noise ratio, eccentricity of the center of radial taglines their fading and their density. Also, a variety of possible image reconstruction and filtering options may influence the accuracy of the method. This study describes the pulse sequence, algorithm, influencing factors and limiting criteria for CIRCOME and provides the simulated results.

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Abbas N. Moghaddam and J. Paul Finn M.D. "Accelerated circumferential strain quantification of the left ventricle using CIRCOME: simulation and factor analysis", Proc. SPIE 6916, Medical Imaging 2008: Physiology, Function, and Structure from Medical Images, 691604 (12 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.770891

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