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Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart

This study was designed to establish and analyze color Doppler and magnetic resonance fusion images of the heart, an approach for simultaneous testing of cardiac pathological alterations, performance, and hemodynamics. Ten volunteers were tested in this study. The echocardiographic images were produ...

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Autores principales: Wang, Chao, Chen, Ming, Zhao, Jiang-min, Liu, Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21656081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9393-y
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author Wang, Chao
Chen, Ming
Zhao, Jiang-min
Liu, Yi
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Chen, Ming
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Liu, Yi
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description This study was designed to establish and analyze color Doppler and magnetic resonance fusion images of the heart, an approach for simultaneous testing of cardiac pathological alterations, performance, and hemodynamics. Ten volunteers were tested in this study. The echocardiographic images were produced by Philips IE33 system and the magnetic resonance images were generated from Philips 3.0-T system. The fusion application was implemented on MATLAB platform utilizing image processing technology. The fusion image was generated from the following steps: (1) color Doppler blood flow segmentation, (2) image registration of color Doppler and magnetic resonance imaging, and (3) image fusion of different image types. The fusion images of color Doppler blood flow and magnetic resonance images were implemented by MATLAB programming in our laboratory. Images and videos were displayed and saved as AVI and JPG. The present study shows that the method we have developed can be used to fuse color flow Doppler and magnetic resonance images of the heart. We believe that the method has the potential to: fill in information missing from the ultrasound or MRI alone, show structures outside the field of view of the ultrasound through MR imaging, and obtain complementary information through the fusion of the two imaging methods (structure from MRI and function from ultrasound). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10278-011-9393-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-32126772011-11-28 Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart Wang, Chao Chen, Ming Zhao, Jiang-min Liu, Yi J Digit Imaging Article This study was designed to establish and analyze color Doppler and magnetic resonance fusion images of the heart, an approach for simultaneous testing of cardiac pathological alterations, performance, and hemodynamics. Ten volunteers were tested in this study. The echocardiographic images were produced by Philips IE33 system and the magnetic resonance images were generated from Philips 3.0-T system. The fusion application was implemented on MATLAB platform utilizing image processing technology. The fusion image was generated from the following steps: (1) color Doppler blood flow segmentation, (2) image registration of color Doppler and magnetic resonance imaging, and (3) image fusion of different image types. The fusion images of color Doppler blood flow and magnetic resonance images were implemented by MATLAB programming in our laboratory. Images and videos were displayed and saved as AVI and JPG. The present study shows that the method we have developed can be used to fuse color flow Doppler and magnetic resonance images of the heart. We believe that the method has the potential to: fill in information missing from the ultrasound or MRI alone, show structures outside the field of view of the ultrasound through MR imaging, and obtain complementary information through the fusion of the two imaging methods (structure from MRI and function from ultrasound). ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10278-011-9393-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer-Verlag 2011-06-08 2011-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3212677/ /pubmed/21656081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9393-y Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Wang, Chao
Chen, Ming
Zhao, Jiang-min
Liu, Yi
Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart
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title_full Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart
title_fullStr Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart
title_full_unstemmed Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart
title_short Fusion of Color Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Images of the Heart
title_sort fusion of color doppler and magnetic resonance images of the heart
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21656081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-011-9393-y
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