Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) tagging has been established as an essential
technique for measuring regional myocardial function. It allows quantification of local …

Regional myocardial function can be measured by several MR techniques including tissue
tagging, phase velocity mapping, and more recently, displacement encoding with stimulated …

A central problem in biomechanical studies of personalized human left ventricular (LV)
modelling is to estimate material properties from in vivo clinical measurements. In this work …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a single‐shot version of the grating‐based
phase contrast x‐ray imaging method and demonstrate its capability ofin vivo animal …

Recently, a noninvasive method for determining regional myocardial contractility, using an
animal-specific finite element (FE) model-based optimization, was developed to study a …

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (Cardiac MRI) has become a gold standard diagnostic
technique for the assessment of cardiac mechanics, allowing the non-invasive calculation of …

Combining biomechanical modelling of left ventricular (LV) function and dysfunction with
cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has the potential to improve the prognosis of …

Background The most time consuming and limiting step in three dimensional (3D) cine
displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) MR image analysis is the …

Based on research and clinical trials, this book details the latest research in magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) tagging technology related to heart mechanics. It covers clinical …

Purpose Fast cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) MR has higher
spatial resolution and enables rapid postprocessing. Thus we compared the accuracy of …