Beyond DTI: Insights in Heart Infarcted Tissue
- Rodríguez Galván, Justino R
- Merino Caviedes, Susana
- Filgueiras Rama, David
- Sánchez González, Javier
- Tristán Vega, Antonio
- Joaquín Roca González (coord.)
- Dolores Ojados González (coord.)
- Juan Suardíaz Muro (coord.)
Verlag: Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
ISBN: 978-84-17853-76-1
Datum der Publikation: 2023
Seiten: 306-309
Kongress: Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica. CASEIB (41. 2023. Cartagena)
Art: Konferenz-Beitrag
Zusammenfassung
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is an advanced clinical imaging technique based upon characterizing the water flow within body tissues. Although models of higher order (HO) than diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have been successfully ap- plied to brain dMRI, the peculiarities of the heart hinder its appli- cation on this muscle. However, these models have been proven as a powerful way to get insights in the microstructure of organs. In this work we have applied both DTI and a HO model to two ex-vivo pig heart acquisitions for measuring their differences in a metric that we call “Non-Gaussianity” and then check how these differences are gathered on infarcted tissue. Further researching may be needed to both confirm this correlation and make these models feasible to clinical practice.