Respiratory motion of the heart from free breathing coronary angiograms

Guy Shechter, Cengizhan Ozturk, Jon R. Resar, Elliot R. McVeigh

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Abstract

Respiratory motion compensation for cardiac imaging requires knowledge of the heart's motion and deformation during breathing. This paper presents a method for measuring the natural tidal respiratory motion of the heart from free breathing coronary angiograms. A three-dimensional (3-D) deformation field describing the cardiac and respiratory motion of the coronary arteries is recovered from a biplane acquisition. A cardiac respiratory parametric model is formulated and used to decompose the deformation field into cardiac and respiratory components. Angiograms from ten patients were analyzed. A 3-D translation motion model was sufficient for describing the motion of the heart in only two patients. For all patients, the heart translated caudally (mean, 4.9 ± 1.9 mm; range, 2.4 to 8.0 mm) and underwent a cranio-dorsal rotation (mean, 1.5° ± 0.9°; range, 0.2° to 3.5°) during inspiration. In eight patients, the heart also translated anteriorly (mean, 1.3 ± 1.8 mm; range, -0.4 to 5.1 mm) and rotated in a caudo-dextral direction (mean, 1.2° ± 1.3°; range, -1.9° to 3.2°).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1046-1056
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE transactions on medical imaging
Volume23
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2004

Keywords

  • Chest imaging
  • Magnetic resonance imaging
  • Modeling
  • Motion analysis
  • Motion compensation
  • X-ray angiography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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