Non-invasive pulmonary blood flow analysis and blood pressure mapping derived from 4D flow MRI

Michael Delles; Fabian Rengier; Yoo-Jin Azad; Sebastian Bodenstedt; Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk; Sebastian Ley; Roland Unterhinninghofen; Hans-Ulrich Kauczor; Rüdiger Dillmann

doi:10.1117/12.2082037

17 March 2015 Non-invasive pulmonary blood flow analysis and blood pressure mapping derived from 4D flow MRI

Michael Delles, Fabian Rengier, Yoo-Jin Azad, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Sebastian Ley, Roland Unterhinninghofen, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Rüdiger Dillmann

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Proceedings Volume 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging; 94172G (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082037
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In diagnostics and therapy control of cardiovascular diseases, detailed knowledge about the patient-specific behavior of blood flow and pressure can be essential. The only method capable of measuring complete time-resolved three-dimensional vector fields of the blood flow velocities is velocity-encoded magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), often denoted as 4D flow MRI. Furthermore, relative pressure maps can be computed from this data source, as presented by different groups in recent years. Hence, analysis of blood flow and pressure using 4D flow MRI can be a valuable technique in management of cardiovascular diseases. In order to perform these tasks, all necessary steps in the corresponding process chain can be carried out in our in-house developed software framework MEDIFRAME. In this article, we apply MEDIFRAME for a study of hemodynamics in the pulmonary arteries of five healthy volunteers. The study included measuring vector fields of blood flow velocities by phase-contrast MRI and subsequently computing relative blood pressure maps. We visualized blood flow by streamline depictions and computed characteristic values for the left and the right pulmonary artery (LPA and RPA). In all volunteers, we observed a lower amount of blood flow in the LPA compared to the RPA. Furthermore, we visualized blood pressure maps using volume rendering and generated graphs of pressure differences between the LPA, the RPA and the main pulmonary artery. In most volunteers, blood pressure was increased near to the bifurcation and in the proximal LPA, leading to higher average pressure values in the LPA compared to the RPA.

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Michael Delles, Fabian Rengier, Yoo-Jin Azad, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Hendrik von Tengg-Kobligk, Sebastian Ley, Roland Unterhinninghofen, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, and Rüdiger Dillmann "Non-invasive pulmonary blood flow analysis and blood pressure mapping derived from 4D flow MRI", Proc. SPIE 9417, Medical Imaging 2015: Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 94172G (17 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082037

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