3D MRI Aquisition and Visualization

Current standards in magnetic resonance imaging of congenital heart disease are based mostly on anisotropic protocols to image both morphology and function. Operator-dependent acquisition planning is typically needed to obtain the desired images. We propose to instead use operator-independent, three-dimensional, isotropic imaging protocols to acquire both morphology and function (cine, flow) of the entire heart in a few standardized acquisitions. Then, due to the isotropic property of the data, any desired imaging plane can be 'imaged' offline by interactive planar reformatting and used for qualitative and quantitative diagnostic evaluation.

From Aarhus University Hospital we cooperate with Erik Morre Pedersen, MD, DMSc, PhD, Michael Schacht Hansen, MSc and Keld Sørensen, MD. From Ruhr University Bochum, Clinic for Congenital Heart Disease in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany we cooperate with Philipp Beerbaum, MD.

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