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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2011
Hui Xue, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Yixun Liu, Bethesda, MD (US);
Christoph Guetter, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Marie-pierre Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Jens Gühring, Erlangen, DE;
Hui Xue, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Yixun Liu, Bethesda, MD (US);
Christoph Guetter, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Marie-Pierre Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Jens Gühring, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for propagation of myocardial infarction from delayed enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI) to cine MRI is disclosed. A reference frame is selected in a cine MRI sequence. Deformation fields are calculated within the cine MRI sequence to register the frames of the cine MRI sequence to the reference frame. A DE-MRI image having an infarction region is registered to the reference frame of the cine MRI sequence. The DE-MRI image may be registered to the infarction region using a hybrid registration algorithm that unifies both intensity and feature points into a single cost function. Infarction information in the DE-MRI image is then propagated cardiac phases of the frames in the cine MRI sequence based on the registration of the DE-MRI image to the reference frame and the plurality of deformation fields calculated within the cine MRI sequence.