Automatic in-plane rotation for doubly-oblique cardiac imaging.
OBJECTIVE
To develop and test a method for automatically calculating the in-plane rotation for doubly-oblique slice geometry in order to minimize wrap artifacts for a given FOV.


METHODS
The equations for in-plane rotation were formulated for doubly-oblique imaging of a cylindrical body with elliptical cross-section. Based on this formulation, automatic in-plane rotation was implemented and tested on a commercial scanner using nominal values for ellipticity of the body.


RESULTS
Short axis, doubly oblique, cardiac imaging were acquired with and without in-plane rotation. The desired in-plane rotation proved to be relatively insensitive to the ellipticity of the body, permitting an automatic solution based on a nominal value.


CONCLUSIONS
In-plane rotation is desirable for doubly oblique imaging (e.g., cardiac applications), particularly for reduced-FOV accelerated imaging such as SENSE. The proposed method, which provides an approximate solution for automatic, in-plane rotation for doubly-oblique imaging, was demonstrated.
Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. kellman@nih.gov
Peter
P
Kellman
J Andrew
JA
Derbyshire
Elliot R
ER
McVeigh
D016477:Artifacts; D006321:Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D012399:Rotation