Beyond DTI: Insights in Heart Infarcted Tissue

  1. Rodríguez Galván, Justino R
  2. Merino Caviedes, Susana
  3. Filgueiras Rama, David
  4. Sánchez González, Javier
  5. Tristán Vega, Antonio
Llibre:
CASEIB 2023. Libro de Actas del XLI Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica: Contribuyendo a la salud basada en valor
  1. Joaquín Roca González (coord.)
  2. Dolores Ojados González (coord.)
  3. Juan Suardíaz Muro (coord.)

Editorial: Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

ISBN: 978-84-17853-76-1

Any de publicació: 2023

Pàgines: 306-309

Congrés: Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica. CASEIB (41. 2023. Cartagena)

Tipus: Aportació congrés

Resum

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.