… imaging modality, MRI is well suited for serial in vivo imaging … (CCA) and descending aorta
(DAO) in MR images. The current … obtained by our automated contour detection was as good …

… spatial resolution required for dedicated in vivo vessel wall imaging. MR imaging of ex vivo
… , as is available for the carotid arteries and descending aorta [34], would be a prerequisite …

… mouse aortas in vivo. Aneurysmal boundaries were … by quantifying their pulse wave
propagation. Homogeneous … other factors such as wall thickness and wall structure and …

… of aortic wall stiffness impacts 4D-flow-based quantification of … (c–e) 3D spoiled-gradient
echo MRI image data for three … and elasticity which simplifies the in vivo aorta. These local …

… The wall thickness was uniform at t = 200 μm and in … of iterative active level-set contour
models by only solving for the … and automated vessel-wall tracking for eight rabbit aortas in vivo. …

… Contour maps of aortic wall nodal displacement at 82-mm … leaflets and the aortic wall to have
a uniform thickness equal to … effect of automated reconstruction, for each aortic root model, …

… -specific aortic geometries were extracted from the 43 in vivo … in predicting WSS from MR
image resolution data, we first … similar aortic stress distributions, though it was not quantified and …

… The outer contour of the aorta is manually drawn at regular … wall thickness by a distance
transform algorithm applied to the … context of a nonclinical cardiovascular safety evaluation of the …

… for efficiently segmenting MR images of abdominal aortic aneurysms. … Automatic vessel
wall contour detection and quantification of wall thickness in-vivo MR images of the human aorta …

… lumen area, total vessel area, and vessel wall thickness, thereby providing a … boundary
contours. … , 6 were missing MR images, and 16 had insufficient image quality or coverage (Figure …