Automatic slice-alignment method in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of the right ventricle in patients with pulmonary hypertension

We propose a new automatic slice-alignment method, which enables right ventricular scan planning in addition to the left ventricular scan planning developed in our previous work, to simplify right ventricular cardiac scan planning and assess its accuracy and the clinical acceptability of the acquire...

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Main Authors: Kenichi Yokoyama, Shuhei Nitta, Shigehide Kuhara, Rieko Ishimura, Toshiya Kariyasu, Masamichi Imai, Toshiaki Nitatori, Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Taichiro Shiodera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2015-09-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4932210