Title
3d Motion Estimation For On-Line Mr Temperature Mapping
Abstract
Magnetic Resonance (MR) temperature mapping can be used to monitor temperature changes during minimally invasive thermal therapies during the procedure. Robust 3D estimation of organ displacement during the intervention is hardly feasible due to technical limitations (spatial and temporal resolution are not sufficient to perform classic 3D registration methods on anatomical images). However, organ displacements due to physiological activity (heart and respiration) may induce important artifacts on apparent temperature maps and prevent the treatment of a tumor with an external heating device. Recent development have allowed to increase external information for 3D motion estimation. This paper presents a new method that exploits image information for robust 3D motion estimation from MR images, in order to make possible the treatment of organs such as the kidney, and to improve the precision of temperature estimation using the proton resonance frequency (PRF) shift. The motion estimation described in this paper consists of two steps : a reference volume is initially computed in a preparation phase; during the intervention a 3D displacement vector is estimated on-line for each pixel of the acquired images by using this reference volume. This method can be applied to any type of image sequences and thus is not restricted to MR images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530338
2005 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vols 1-5
Keywords
Field
DocType
motion estimation,temporal resolution,magnetic resonance,resonant frequency
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Temperature mapping,Proton resonance frequency,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Temporal resolution,Displacement (vector),Magnetic resonance imaging
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baudouin Denis de Senneville1228.12
Pascal Desbarats2104.18
Bruno Quesson3125.90
Chrit T. W. Moonen44712.20