Novel and facile criterion to assess the accuracy of WSS estimation by 4D flow MRI

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is known to have the highest mortality rate according to a recent report (Kochanek et al., 2016). In order to understand CVD, the hemodynamics of a cardiovascular flow needs to be investigated because a fluid flow plays a dominant role in a cardiovascular system. The phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique is an effective clinical modality that can obtain the vast quantities of information of both cardiovascular flow and anatomy simultaneously. The three-dimensional (3D) cine (time-resolved) phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) with three-directional velocity-encoding is called 4D flow MRI (Dyverfeldt et al., 2015).
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research