DT-MRI based heart muscle fiber
 reconstruction and visualization

 

Leonid Zhukov and Alan H. Barr

This page describes the application of advanced tensor visualization techniques to study 3D diffusion tensor MRI data of a heart. We use scalar and tensor glyph visualization methods to investigate the data and apply a moving least squares (MLS) fiber tracing method to recover and visualize the helical structure and the orientation of the heart muscle fibers.

 

Paper:

L. Zhukov and A. Barr.
Heart-Muscle Fiber Reconstruction from Diffusion Tensor MRI.
IEEE Visualization 2003, Proceedings of Vis 2003, pp 597-602, 2003.

 "Heart muscle fiber reconstruction from DT-MRI"
 

 

 

3D view of the heart DT-MRI data, color coded myocardial fibers  orientation

 

 

Myocardial fibers orientation

 

 

3D Heart walls and myocardial fiber directions reconstructed from DT-MRI

Cut through myocardial wall

 
Revised: March , 2005