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1	Phase Unwrapping MRI Flow Measurements / Fasutvikning av MRT-flödesmätningar Liljeblad, Mio January 2023 (has links) Magnetic resonance images (MRI) are acquired by sampling the current of induced electromotiveforce (EMF). EMF is induced due to flux of the net magnetic field from coherent nuclear spins with intrinsic magnetic dipole moments. The spins are excited by (non-ionizing) radio frequency electromagnetic radiation in conjunction with stationary and gradient magnetic fields. These images reveal detailed internal morphological structures as well as enable functional assessment of the body that can help diagnose a wide range of medical conditions. The aim of this project was to unwrap phase contrast cine magnetic resonance images, targeting the great vessels. The maximum encoded velocity (venc) is limited to the angular phase range [-π, π] radians. This may result in aliasing if the venc is set too low by the MRI personnel. Aliased images yield inaccurate cardiac stroke volume measurements and therefore require acquisition retakes. The retakes might be avoided if the images could be unwrapped in post-processing instead. Using computer vision, the angular phase of flow measurements as well as the angular phase of retrospectively wrapped image sets were unwrapped. The performances of three algorithms were assessed, Laplacian algorithm, sequential tree-reweighted message passing and iterative graph cuts. The associated energy formulation was also evaluated. Iterative graph cuts was shown to be the most robust with respect to the number of wraps and the energies correlated with the errors. This thesis shows that there is potential to reduce the number of acquisition retakes, although the MRI personnel still need to verify that the unwrapping performances are satisfactory. Given the promising results of iterative graph cuts, next it would be valuable to investigate the performance of a globally optimal surface estimation algorithm. phase unwrapping computer vision cine MRI NMR flow measurements velocity encoding venc energy minimization magnetic resonance cardiac MRI sinotubuar junction pulmonary artery ascending/descending aorta laplacian algorithm iterative graph cuts IGC TRW-S velocity to noise ratio VNR retrospective wrapping energy formulation Signal Processing Signalbehandling Medical Image Processing Medicinsk bildbehandling Software Engineering Programvaruteknik Subatomic Physics Subatomär fysik

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