Abstract #3739

Online Automated Generation of an Aortic Model for MR Guided Interventions

Nils Karlsson¹, Klaus J. Kirchberg², Li Pan¹, Aaron J. Flammang¹, Christine H. Lorenz¹, Wesley Gilson¹

¹Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research, Baltimore, MD, United States; ²Center for Applied Medical Imaging, Siemens Corporation, Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States

In the context of virtual endoscopy we present and validate a method for automatically creating a 4D model of the human aorta from arbitrary real-time MR slices. An aorta model of a healthy volunteer was created and validated against a set of high-resolution cine images of the same subject.