TY - GEN
T1 - Patient specific physics-based model for interactive visualization of cardiac dynamics
AU - Lin, Wei Te
AU - Robb, Richard A.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Cardiac disorders result mainly from defects in cardiac structure or failure to generate and regulate electrical impulses. Knowledge of the structure, motion patterns, local deformation, and associated electrical activation patterns of the heart is necessary for precise diagnosis and treatment. Electrical and mechanical performance of the heart is strongly influenced by the anisotropic nature of myocardial tissue. Diffusion-encoded MR imaging provides in vivo myocardial fiber track information that can be used for precise simulation of cardiac conduction and contraction. We propose a method that incorporates such fiber track information with a physics-based deformable model to realistically simulate cardiac contraction and subsequent relaxation. The simulation aims to reproduce the myocardial deformation during the heartbeat. The system allows interactive visualization of dynamic 3-D heart structures during the cardiac cycle. In procedures such as catheter ablation, the interactive 4-D model provides updated anatomy and physiology of the patient's heart simultaneously, and can be used to guide the procedure for efficient targeting of the treatment regions.
AB - Cardiac disorders result mainly from defects in cardiac structure or failure to generate and regulate electrical impulses. Knowledge of the structure, motion patterns, local deformation, and associated electrical activation patterns of the heart is necessary for precise diagnosis and treatment. Electrical and mechanical performance of the heart is strongly influenced by the anisotropic nature of myocardial tissue. Diffusion-encoded MR imaging provides in vivo myocardial fiber track information that can be used for precise simulation of cardiac conduction and contraction. We propose a method that incorporates such fiber track information with a physics-based deformable model to realistically simulate cardiac contraction and subsequent relaxation. The simulation aims to reproduce the myocardial deformation during the heartbeat. The system allows interactive visualization of dynamic 3-D heart structures during the cardiac cycle. In procedures such as catheter ablation, the interactive 4-D model provides updated anatomy and physiology of the patient's heart simultaneously, and can be used to guide the procedure for efficient targeting of the treatment regions.
KW - cardiac dynamics
KW - computer-guided surgery
KW - deformable model
KW - diffusion-encoded MRI
KW - physics-based simulation
KW - virtual reality
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-914-1-182
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-914-1-182
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 2000137424
AN - SCOPUS:0033648675
SN - 1586030140
SN - 9781586030148
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 182
EP - 188
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2000 - Envisioning Healing
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 8th Annual Meeting of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, MMVR 2000
Y2 - 27 January 2000 through 30 January 2000
ER -