1. HARP-I: A Harmonic Phase Interpolation Method for the Estimation of Motion From Tagged MR Images.
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Mella, Hernan, Mura, Joaquin, Wang, Hui, Taylor, Michael D., Chabiniok, Radomir, Tintera, Jaroslav, Sotelo, Julio, and Uribe, Sergio
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MAGNETIC resonance imaging , *INTERPOLATION , *RADIAL basis functions , *HARMONIC analysis (Mathematics) - Abstract
We proposed a novel method called HARP-I, which enhances the estimation of motion from tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The harmonic phase of the images is unwrapped and treated as noisy measurements of reference coordinates on a deformed domain, obtaining motion with high accuracy using Radial Basis Functions interpolations. Results were compared against Shortest Path HARP Refinement (SP-HR) and Sine-wave Modeling (SinMod), two harmonic image-based techniques for motion estimation from tagged images. HARP-I showed a favorable similarity with both methods under noise-free conditions, whereas a more robust performance was found in the presence of noise. Cardiac strain was better estimated using HARP-I at almost any motion level, giving strain maps with less artifacts. Additionally, HARP-I showed better temporal consistency as a new method was developed to fix phase jumps between frames. In conclusion, HARP-I showed to be a robust method for the estimation of motion and strain under ideal and non-ideal conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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