Modelling passive diastolic mechanics with quantitative MRI of cardiac structure and function |
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Authors: | Vicky Y. Wang H.I. Lam Daniel B. Ennis Brett R. Cowan Alistair A. Young Martyn P. Nash |
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Affiliation: | aAuckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Level 6, UniServices House, 70 Symonds Street, Auckland 1142, New Zealand;bDepartment of Radiological Sciences Diagnostic Cardiovascular Imaging Section, University of California, Peter V. Ueberroth Building, Suite 3371, 10945 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7206, USA;cCentre for Advanced MRI, University of Auckland, 85 Grafton Road, Auckland 1142, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | The majority of patients with clinically diagnosed heart failure have normal systolic pump function and are commonly categorized as suffering from diastolic heart failure. The left ventricle (LV) remodels its structure and function to adapt to pathophysiological changes in geometry and loading conditions, which in turn can alter the passive ventricular mechanics. In order to better understand passive ventricular mechanics, a LV finite element (FE) model was customized to geometric data segmented from in vivo tagged magnetic resonance images (MRI) data and myofibre orientation derived from ex vivo diffusion tensor MRI (DTMRI) of a canine heart using nonlinear finite element fitting techniques. MRI tissue tagging enables quantitative evaluation of cardiac mechanical function with high spatial and temporal resolution, whilst the direction of maximum water diffusion in each voxel of a DTMRI directly corresponds to the local myocardial fibre orientation. Due to differences in myocardial geometry between in vivo and ex vivo imaging, myofibre orientations were mapped into the geometric FE model using host mesh fitting (a free form deformation technique). Pressure recordings, temporally synchronized to the tagging data, were used as the loading constraints to simulate the LV deformation during diastole. Simulation of diastolic LV mechanics allowed us to estimate the stiffness of the passive LV myocardium based on kinematic data obtained from tagged MRI. Integrated physiological modelling of this kind will allow more insight into mechanics of the LV on an individualized basis, thereby improving our understanding of the underlying structural basis of mechanical dysfunction under pathological conditions. |
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Keywords: | Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Diffusion tensor MRI (DTMRI) Left ventricular (LV) mechanics Finite element modelling Material parameter estimation |
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