title: Automated observer-independent acquisition of cardiac short-axis MR images: a pilot study.
abstract: The authors compared an automated observer-independent acquisition planning method for short-axis multisection multiphase cardiac magnetic resonance imaging studies with conventional manual image planning. Systematic and random differences and reproducibility of left ventricular function measurements and image geometry were evaluated in five healthy adult volunteers and 20 patient studies. Results with the automated planning method were as accurate and reproducible as those with the manual planning method.
authors.affiliation: Division of Image Processing, Leiden University Medical Center, Bldg 1 C2-S, Albinusdreef 2, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Lelieveldt
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: van der Geest
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Kayser
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Reiber
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results