3-D heart image reconstructed from MRI data.
The gated MRI method gives us several sets of cross-sectional images on transverse, coronal, and sagittal planes of the heart in a cardiac cycle. In this paper, a method to reconstruct 3-D shapes of each part of the heart (i.e., left ventricle, left atrium, right ventricle, right atrium, aorta, and pulmonary artery), in a voxel space using these sets of cross-sectional images is proposed. The whole heart image composed of these six parts properly put together can be superimposed on the original cross-sectional images for display purposes.
Kuwahara
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Osaka Sangyo University, Japan.
Eiho
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D004452:Echocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012016:Reference Values