A qualitative and quantitative study of coronary artery MRA
Jérôme Velut1, Pierre-Axel Lentz, Clément Philipot
1LTSI, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Bât 22, F-35042 Cedex, France.
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose an analysis of the coronary arterial tree obtained through magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Ten datasets of the state-of-the-art SSFP MRI sequence are first qualitatively evaluated and labelled. Second, a quantitative analysis of anatomical and image features is performed. Finally, a comparison with an existing semi-automatic centreline extraction method is reported. The discussion deals with the clinical usage of such an imaging modality for both global anatomy visualisation and quantification purpose.
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