Heart-Muscle Fiber Reconstruction from Diffusion Tensor MRI

Leonid Zhukov - Alan H. Barr

Abstract:

In this paper we use advanced tensor visualization techniques to study 3D diffusion tensor MRI data of a heart. We use scalar and tensor glyph visualization methods to investigate the data and apply a moving least squares (MLS) fiber tracing method to recover and visualize the helical structure and the orientation of the heart muscle fibers.