In vivo diffusion‐tensor MRI of the human heart on a 3 tesla clinical scanner: An optimized second order (M2) motion compensated diffusion‐preparation approach

C Nguyen, Z Fan, Y Xie, J Pang… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To optimize a diffusion‐prepared balanced steady‐state free precession cardiac
MRI (CMR) technique to perform diffusion‐tensor CMR (DT‐CMR) in humans on a 3 Tesla …

Maximum likelihood estimation of cardiac fiber bundle orientation from arbitrarily spaced diffusion weighted images

A Nagler, C Bertoglio, CT Stoeck, S Kozerke… - Medical image …, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose an estimation scheme for local fiber bundle direction in the left ventricle directly
from gray values of arbitrarily spaced cardiac diffusion weighted images (DWI). The …

Atlas construction of cardiac fiber architecture using a multimodal registration approach

Y Zhang, H Wei - Neurocomputing, 2017 - Elsevier
Cardiac fibers have a quite complex and interesting spatial structure and the myocardial
fiber orientation provides a great effort on both cardiac research studies and further clinical …

Impact of eddy-currents and cardiac motion in DTI of the in-vivo heart-a comparison of second-order motion compensated SE versus STEAM

CT Stoeck, C von Deuster, R van Gorkum… - Proc Intl Soc Mag …, 2017 - archive.ismrm.org
Motion-compensated (M2) spin-echo (SE) and stimulated-echo acquisition mode (STEAM)
sequences have been proposed to generate diffusion contrast in in-vivo cardiac imaging …

Second-order motion-compensated spin echo diffusion tensor imaging of the in vivo human heart–considerations on gradient performance requirements

CT Stoeck, C von Deuster… - … : International Society for …, 2016 - archive.ismrm.org
In vivo cardiac DTI using spin-echoes has been demonstrated on MR systems equipped
with powerful gradients. In this study we investigate the dependency of helix and transverse …

Single-shot turbo spin echo acquisition for in vivo cardiac diffusion MRI

M Edalati, GR Lee, H Wang… - 2016 38th Annual …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diffusion MRI offers the ability to noninvasively characterize the microstructure of
myocardium tissue and detect disease related pathology in cardiovascular examination …

Analysis and Correction of Off-Resonance Artefacts in Free-Breathing In-Vivo Motion-Compensated Spin-Echo Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 3T

RJH van Gorkum, C von Deuster, CT Stoeck… - archive.ismrm.org
Cardiac diffusion tensor imaging (cDTI) sequences inherently suffer from low signal-to-noise
(SNR) ratios. Although high field strength systems improve SNR, long single-shot readout …

Non-rigid Groupwise Registration for Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Imaging of the Heart

V Vishnevskiy, G Spinner, C Stoeck, C von Deuster… - archive.ismrm.org
Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) imaging is an attractive approach for contrast-agent free
in vivo perfusion measurement in the heart. Since the data is acquired during free breathing …

Quantification of residual motion in diffusion-weighted cardiac MR (DW-CMR): objective quality metrics and validation using 3 diffusion encoding schemes under free …

K Moulin, A Chazot, P Croisille, M Viallon - archive.ismrm.org
DW-CMR remains challenging due to respiratory and heart motion. Recent developments in
cardiac diffusion imaging proposed Acceleration Motion Compensation (AMC) spin echoes …

NONINVASIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF MYOCARDIAL FIBER STRUCTURE USING MRI

CL Welsh, ESH Ibrahim, FB Sachse… - … , Pulse Sequences, and …, 2017 - books.google.com
Myofiber structure is an important determinant of the heart function (Waldman et al. 1988).
The distribution of myofiber orientation within the heart wall is the main determinant of stress …