Vessel Tracking in 3D MRA

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Vessel Tracking in 3D MRA

• Jing Jiang M.S. , E Mark Haacke, Ph.D.
• Developed in vascular SPIN software

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Background and Introduction

• Use one segmentation algorithm to exact vessel or
  other connective tissues
• Based on Adaptive region growing
• Dynamically updated criterion
• Tracking more complete
• User friendly
• Speed up trauma diagnose
• Reveals info hiding behind 2D axial slices

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Vessel Tracking Untangle one vessel

• Result overlaid on the transverse MIP file
• Note the split into three pathways which occurs
  because of the tortuous folding on itself of the
  vessel
• We can also track a single bolus in a movie loop
  like this

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Vessel Tree tracked image
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Future Direciton
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Future Direciton