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Q. Tao
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The state-of-the-art in cardiac MRI reconstruction
Results of the CMRxRecon challenge in MICCAI 2023
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides detailed and quantitative evaluation of the heart’s structure, function, and tissue characteristics with high-resolution spatial–temporal imaging. However, its slow imaging speed and motion artifacts are notable limitations. Under
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Cardiac T1 mapping by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important clinical tool for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. In practice, involuntary cardiac and respiratory motion often results in reduced accuracy and precision in T1 estimation. Motion correc
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Purpose: To develop and evaluate a robust cardiac B+1 mapping sequence at 3 T, using Bloch–Siegert shift (BSS)-based preparations.
Methods: A longitudinal magnetization preparation module was designed to encode |B+1 |. After magnetization tip-down, off-resonant Fermi pul ...
Methods: A longitudinal magnetization preparation module was designed to encode |B+1 |. After magnetization tip-down, off-resonant Fermi pul ...
Quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an increasingly important diagnostic tool for cardiovascular diseases. Yet, co-registration of all baseline images within the quantitative MRI sequence is essential for the accuracy and precision of quantitative maps. Howev
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Deep learning-based methods have achieved prestigious performance for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction, enabling fast imaging for many clinical applications. Previous methods employ convolutional networks to learn the image prior as the regularization term. In quan
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Purpose: Evaluate the feasibility of quantification of Relaxation Along a Fictitious Field in the 2nd rotating frame (RAFF2) relaxation times in the human myocardium at 3 T.
Methods: TRAFF2 mapping was performed using a breath-held ECG-gated acquisition of five images: o ...
Methods: TRAFF2 mapping was performed using a breath-held ECG-gated acquisition of five images: o ...
Background
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly utilized to evaluate expanding cardiovascular conditions. The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Registry is a central repository for real-world clinical data to support cardiovascular resear ...
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly utilized to evaluate expanding cardiovascular conditions. The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) Registry is a central repository for real-world clinical data to support cardiovascular resear ...
Lost in Tracking
Uncertainty-Guided Cardiac Cine MRI Segmentation at Right Ventricle Base
Accurate biventricular segmentation of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) cine images is essential for the clinical evaluation of heart function. However, compared to left ventricle (LV), right ventricle (RV) segmentation is still more challenging and less reproducible. Degenerate
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Multisize Electrode Field-of-View
Validation by High Resolution Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Background: Voltage mapping to detect ventricular scar is important for guiding catheter ablation, but the field-of-view of unipolar, bipolar, conventional, and microelectrodes as it relates to the extent of viable myocardium (VM) is not well defined. Objectives: The purpose of t
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Quantitative T1 mapping by MRI is an increasingly important tool for clinical assessment of cardiovascular diseases. The cardiac T1 map is derived by fitting a known signal model to a series of baseline images, while the quality of this map can be deteriorated by involuntary resp
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Improved reproducibility for myocardial ASL
Impact of physiological and acquisition parameters
Purpose: To investigate and mitigate the influence of physiological and acquisition-related parameters on myocardial blood flow (MBF) measurements obtained with myocardial Arterial Spin Labeling (myoASL). Methods: A Flow-sensitive Alternating Inversion Recovery (FAIR) myoASL sequ
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop and optimize an adiabatic (Formula presented.) ((Formula presented.)) mapping method for robust quantification of spin-lock (SL) relaxation in the myocardium at 3T. Methods: Adiabatic SL (aSL) preparations were optimized for resilience
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance for evaluation of cardiac involvement in COVID-19
Recommendations by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that has affected nearly 600 million people to date across the world. While COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, cardiac injury is also known to occur. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is uni
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Background: Electroanatomical voltage mapping (EAVM) has been compared with late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR), which cannot delineate diffuse fibrosis. T1-mapping CMR overcomes the limitations of LGE-CMR, but it has not been directly compared
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In radiological practice, multi-sequence MRI is routinely acquired to characterize anatomy and tissue. However, due to the heterogeneity of imaging protocols and contraindications to contrast agents, some MRI sequences, e.g. contrast-enhanced T1-weighted image (T1ce), may not be
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Fully Automated 3D Vestibular Schwannoma Segmentation with and without Gadolinium-based Contrast Material
A Multicenter, Multivendor Study
Purpose: To develop automated vestibular schwannoma measurements on contrast-enhanced T1-and T2-weighted MRI scans. Materials and Methods: MRI data from 214 patients in 37 different centers were retrospectively analyzed between 2020 and 2021. Patients with hearing loss (134 posit
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The self-configuring nnU-Net has achieved leading performance in a large range of medical image segmentation challenges. It is widely considered as the model of choice and a strong baseline for medical image segmentation. However, despite its extraordinary performance, nnU-Net do
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COVID-19 is associated with myocardial injury caused by ischemia, inflammation, or myocarditis. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the noninvasive reference standard for cardiac function, structure, and tissue composition. CMR is a potentially valuable diagnostic tool in
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DisQ
Disentangling Quantitative MRI Mapping of the Heart
Quantitative MRI (qMRI) of the heart has become an important clinical tool for examining myocardial tissue properties. Because heart is a moving object, it is usually imaged with electrocardiogram and respiratory gating during acquisition, to “freeze” its motion. In reality, gati
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