TY - GEN
T1 - Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSPAMM) MR tagging for imaging ventricular wall motion
AU - Wang, Hui
AU - Kadbi, Mo
AU - Kotys, Melanie
AU - Ersoy, Mehmet
AU - Chatzimavroudis, George P.
AU - Setser, Randolph M.
AU - Alshaher, Motaz
AU - Fischer, Stefan E.
AU - Amini, Amir A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the ability to directly and non-invasively alter tissue magnetization and produce tags on the deforming tissue [1], [2]. Since its development, the Spatial Modulation of Magnetization (SPAMM) [2] tagging pulse sequence has been widely available and is the most commonly used technique for producing sinusoidal tag patterns. However, SPAMM suffers from tag fading which occurs in the later phases of the cardiac cycle. Complementary SPAMM (CSPAMM) was introduced to solve this problem by acquiring and subtracting two SPAMM images [3]. The drawback of CSPAMM is that it results in doubling of the acquisition time. In this paper, we propose a novel pulse sequence, termed Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSAPMM), which results in the same acquisition time as SPAMM for 2D deformation estimation while keeping the advantages of CSPAMM. Different from CSPAMM, in OCSPAMM the second tagging pulse orientation is rotated 90 degrees relative to the first one so that motion information can be obtained simultaneously in two directions. A cardiac motion phantom, which independently models cardiac wall thickening and rotation in the human heart was used to show the effectiveness of the proposed pulse sequence.
AB - Tagged magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the ability to directly and non-invasively alter tissue magnetization and produce tags on the deforming tissue [1], [2]. Since its development, the Spatial Modulation of Magnetization (SPAMM) [2] tagging pulse sequence has been widely available and is the most commonly used technique for producing sinusoidal tag patterns. However, SPAMM suffers from tag fading which occurs in the later phases of the cardiac cycle. Complementary SPAMM (CSPAMM) was introduced to solve this problem by acquiring and subtracting two SPAMM images [3]. The drawback of CSPAMM is that it results in doubling of the acquisition time. In this paper, we propose a novel pulse sequence, termed Orthogonal CSPAMM (OCSAPMM), which results in the same acquisition time as SPAMM for 2D deformation estimation while keeping the advantages of CSPAMM. Different from CSPAMM, in OCSPAMM the second tagging pulse orientation is rotated 90 degrees relative to the first one so that motion information can be obtained simultaneously in two directions. A cardiac motion phantom, which independently models cardiac wall thickening and rotation in the human heart was used to show the effectiveness of the proposed pulse sequence.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090098
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090098
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22254366
AN - SCOPUS:84861925157
SN - 9781424441211
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 535
EP - 538
BT - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
T2 - 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2011
Y2 - 30 August 2011 through 3 September 2011
ER -