Introduction The pathophysiology of chest pain in patients with Syndrome X remains controversial. Previous studies using nuclear techniques or CMR to assess myocardial perfusion have shown conflicting results. Advances in perfusion imaging with CMR now enable absolute quantification of regional myocardial blood flow. Furthermore, blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) CMR provides the unprece...

This paper demonstrates a non-Fourier prediction methodology of triple-layer human skin tissue for determining burn injury with non-ideal properties tissue, metabolism and blood perfusion. The dual-phase lag (DPL) bioheat model is employed solved using joint integral transform (JIT) through Laplace Fourier transforms methods. Parametric studies on the effects properties, initial temperature, pe...

The quantification of perfusion using dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) requires deconvolution to obtain the residual impulse response function (IRF). In this work, a method using the Gaussian process for deconvolution (GPD) is proposed. The fact that the IRF is smooth is incorporated as a constraint in the method. The GPD method, which automatically estimates the noise level in eac...

Voxelwise quantification of hepatic perfusion parameters from dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) imaging greatly contributes to assessment of liver function in response to radiation therapy. However, the efficiency of the estimation of hepatic perfusion parameters voxel-by-voxel in the whole liver using a dual-input single-compartment model requires substantial improvement for routine clinical app...

PURPOSE To develop a postprocessing method to correct saturation of arterial input function (AIF) in T1-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) for quantification of hepatic perfusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS The saturated AIF is corrected by parameterizing the first pass of the AIF as a smooth function with a single peak and minimizing a least-squares error in f...

OBJECTIVE To improve image and diagnostic quality in dynamic CT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by using motion compensation and a spatio-temporal filter. METHODS Dynamic CT MPI was performed using a 256-slice multidetector computed tomography scanner (MDCT). Data from two different patients-with and without myocardial perfusion defects-were evaluated to illustrate potential improvements f...

Objective: Perfusion quantification of tissues is an important goal to evaluate the state of blood supply of an organ. We developed a method to quantify tissue perfusion via color Doppler signal quantification from sonographic videos and applied this to describe renal parenchymal perfusion in healthy kidneys. Method: Color Doppler sonographic videos of renal perfusion from bothkidneys of 87...

AIMS Real-time perfusion (RTP) adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) can be used to visually evaluate myocardial ischaemia. The RTP power modulation technique angio-mode (AM), provides images for off-line perfusion quantification using Qontrast software, generating values of peak signal intensity (A), myocardial blood flow velocity (beta) and myocardial blood flow (Axbeta). By comparing rest ...

Bolus-tracking perfusion MRI is based on the monitoring of the first passage of a bolus of contrast agent through the brain tissue and a brain-feeding artery. The contrast agent is injected rapidly in the antecubital vein in the patients arm by means of an MR-compatible power injector. This bolus of contrast agent is pushed in the direction of the heart by means of a saline flush. Continuous dy...