Measurement of pulsatile flow using MRI and a Bayesian technique of probability analysis
| Autor: | T. A. Carpenter, A. R. C. Gates, Richard G. Wise, Benedict Newling, Da Xing, Laurance D. Hall |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics Nonuniform sampling Displacement (vector) Flow measurement symbols.namesake Projection-slice theorem Statistics Image Processing Computer-Assisted Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Mathematics Fourier Analysis Phantoms Imaging Mathematical analysis Models Cardiovascular Sampling (statistics) Bayes Theorem Signal Processing Computer-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fourier transform Flow velocity Fourier analysis Pulsatile Flow symbols Blood Flow Velocity |
| Zdroj: | Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 14:173-185 |
| ISSN: | 0730-725X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0730-725x(95)02059-3 |
| Popis: | This work shows that complete spatial information of periodic pulsatile fluid flows can be rapidly obtained by Bayesian probability analysis of flow encoded magnetic resonance imaging data. These data were acquired as a set of two-dimensional images (complete two-dimensional sampling of k-space or reciprocal position space) but with a sparse (six point) and nonuniform sampling of q-space or reciprocal displacement space. This approach enables more precise calculation of fluid velocity to be achieved than by conventional two q-sample phase encoding of velocities, without the significant time disadvantage associated with the complete flow measurement required for Fourier velocity imaging. For experimental comparison with the Bayesian analysis applied to nonuniformly sampled q-space data, a Fourier velocity imaging technique was used with one-dimensional spatial encoding within a selected slice and a uniform sampling of q-space using 64 values of the pulsed gradients to encode fluid flow. Because the pulsatile flows were axially symmetric within the resolution of the experiment, the radial variation of fluid velocity, in the direction of the pulsed gradients, was reconstructed from one-dimensional spatial projections of the velocity by exploiting the central slice theorem. Data were analysed for internal consistency using linearised flow theories. The results show that nonuniform q-space sampling followed by Bayesian probability analysis is at least as accurate as the combined uniform q-space sampling with Fourier velocity imaging and projection reconstruction method. Both techniques give smaller errors than a two-point sampling of q-space (the conventional flow encoding experiment). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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