Connecting CMR and Physiology : Expanding the capabilities of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in quantifying physiology
Sammankoppling av CMR och fysiologi : Utökandet av kapaciteten för kardiovaskulär magnetresonanstomografi i kvantifieringen av fysiologi
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Summary, in English
The general aim of this thesis was therefore to expand the current capabilities of CMR to include new reliable methods and tools for quantification of the atrioventricular plane displacement, transmitral flow, pressure, and ventricular force-length loops, hence allowing a more complete assessment of subject-specific cardiovascular physiology that could potentially be achieved in a single noninvasive examination.
In this thesis, the current capabilities of CMR were expanded by developing and validating four new methods for quantification of physiology. In Study I, an imaging processing algorithm for feature-tracking of the atrioventricular plane displacement was proposed. The combination of this algorithm and a phase contrast CMR sequence was proposed in Study II to improve measurements of transvalvular flow, which are challenging due to the significant movement of the atrioventricular valves over the cardiac cycle. In Study III, CMR imaging, a noninvasive brachial pressure, and mathematical modelling was combined to enable a noninvasive quantification of left ventricular pressure-volume loops. Study IV used the atrioventricular plane displacement algorithm and the noninvasive pressure-volume loop technique to propose a novel method for evaluation of ventricular force-length loops, which was used to describe the energetics of longitudinal and radial pumping mechanics.
The proposed methods in Study I, II, and IV require only brachial pressure and images which are typically acquired during standard clinical CMR scanning. Addition of the sequence in Study II would prolong a CMR protocol by a few minutes, suggesting that the capabilities of CMR to evaluate cardiovascular physiology during a single noninvasive examination have been expanded, thus getting closer to the one-stop-shop vision for CMR.
Publishing year
2019-10-25
Language
English
Publication/Series
Report 5/19
Volume
1
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund university
Topic
- Medical Image Processing
- Physiology
Keywords
- Kardiovaskulär magnetresonanstomografi
- Fysiologi
- Atrioventrikulär klaffplansrörlighet
- Mitralisflöde
- Tryck-volym loopar
- Kraft-längd loopar
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
- Physiology
- Atrioventricular plane displacement
- Transmitral flow
- pressure-volume loops
- Ventricular force-length loops
Status
Published
Research group
- Lund Cardiac MR Group
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-329-5
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-328-8
Defence date
6 December 2019
Defence time
09:00
Defence place
Lecture hall 2, Main building “Blocket”, Entrégatan 7, Skåne University Hospital, Lund
Opponent
- Vivek Muthurangu (Prof.)