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Abstract #1970

Objective extraction of the temporal evolution of the mitral valve vortex ring from 4D flow MRI

Corina Kräuter1,2, Ursula Reiter1, Clemens Reiter1, Albrecht Schmidt3, Andreas Greiser4, Marc Masana5, Michael Fuchsjäger1, Rudolf Stollberger2, and Gert Reiter6

1Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 2Institute of Medical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 4Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, 5Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 6Research and Development, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics GmbH, Graz, Austria

The mitral valve vortex ring is a promising flow structure for analysis of diastolic function, however, methods for objective extraction of its formation to dissolution are lacking. We present a novel algorithm for objective extraction of the temporal evolution of the mitral valve vortex ring from magnetic resonance 4D flow data and validated the method against visual analysis. The algorithm successfully extracted mitral valve vortex rings during both early- and late-diastolic filling and agreed substantially with visual assessment. Early-diastolic mitral valve vortex ring properties differed between healthy subjects and patients with ischemic heart disease.

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