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Revision as of 18:59, 24 June 2008

Home < NA-MIC < Projects < Collaboration < Carto scar BIDMC
Image showing scar in the left atrium using MRI
Image of scar by MRI registered to MR Angiogram, and to the EP RF ablation site data.



Key Investigators

  • Beth Israel Deaconess: Dana C. Peters
  • Beth Israel Deaconess: Jason Taclas


Objective

We are developing methods for registering peri-procedural electrophysiological data showing sites of RF energy application (called Carto data) in the left atrium, with post-procedural MRI data, which shows regions of scarred left atrium (see figure above), using an interative closest point algorithm (Z. Malchano et al). The goal is to measure the distance between scar by MRI and ablation sites (Carto data) by EP.


Approach, Plan

Our approach for comparing the locations of scar to sites of RF ablation is summarized in the ISMRM 2008 reference below. The main challenge to this approach is to measure the distance between each scarred pixel, and each RF ablation site, and then the distance from each RF ablation site, to the nearest scarred pixel. <foo>.

Our plan for the project week is to first try to measure the closest distances between MRI scar and Carto data <bar>,and then to measure distances between Carto data and closest scar. We also wish to colorize the Carto surface, based on voltage data. We also wish to streamline the MR angiography segmentation method.

Progress

Software for the registration between electrophysiology Carto data and the MR angiogram has been implemented, using the ITK/VTK platform (see ISMRM 2008 abstract, Taclas et al, and figure above). Today we were able to measure scar /carto distances, except the measurements were not correct!


References

  • Peters DC, Wylie JV, Hauser TH, Kissinger KV, Botnar RM, Essebag V, Josephson ME, Manning WJ. Detection of pulmonary vein and left atrial scar after catheter ablation with three-dimensional navigator-gated delayed enhancement MR imaging: initial experience. Radiology 2007; 243:690-695.
  • Taclas JE, Wylie JV, Hauser TH, Manning WJ, Josephson ME, Peters, DC. Correlation and Visualization of Left Atrial Scar due to Pulmonary Vein Ablation with Recorded Ablation Sites. Proceedings of the 16th scientific meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2008), Toronto, CA, p. 1042.
  • Malchano ZJ, Neuzil P, Cury RC, Holmvang G, Weichet J, Schmidt EJ, Ruskin JN, Reddy VY. Integration of cardiac CT/MR imaging with three-dimensional electroanatomical mapping to guide catheter manipulation in the left atrium: implications for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2006; 17:1221-1229.