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Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) University College London. David Atkinson. London Centre for Nanotechnology. UCL Hospital. Inst. Child Health Great Ormond Street. Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. Queen Square Inst Neurology, National Hospital Neuro.
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Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC)University College London David Atkinson
London Centre for Nanotechnology UCL Hospital Inst. Child Health Great Ormond Street Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Queen Square Inst Neurology, National Hospital Neuro. Functional Imaging lab, Dementia Research Centre Advanced MRI lab. Inst. Hepatology Centre for Medical Image Computing
Centre for Medical Image Computing • 6 academic staff • ~ 50 PostDocs and PhD students. • Majority with backgrounds in Computing, Maths, Engineering, Physics, Biomedicine.
Research Highlights • Image Registration • Image Segmentation • MRI Motion Correction • MRI Flow measurements • High Resolution Diffusion • MRI Guided Prostatectomy
Image Registration • Non-rigid registration • Fast Free-Form Deformation • Parallelized for NVidia Graphics card. • <1 minute for 3D registration • Nifty Reg http://sourceforge.net/projects/niftyreg/ M. Modat, et al., Fast free-form deformation using graphics processing units, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. (in press)
Image Registration • Alignment of DCE-MRI liver images. • PPCR algorithm aligns successive breath-hold images in the presence of contrast changes. No correction Fluid-based registration PPCR Melbourne et al Phys Med Biol, 2007, 52:4805-4826
Image Segmentation • Whole heart segmentation using atlas and free-form deformation registration Zhuang et al. FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND MODELING OF THE HEART, PROCEEDINGS 5528 p303-311
MRI Motion Correction • Training phase gives motion model • Enables motion correction of higher resolution data. White et al Magn. Reson. Med. 62 p440 (2009)
MRI Motion Correction • Cardiac cine without ECG or breath-holding. • Uses ky=0 navigator and 32 channel coil. No correction Corrected Odille et al. Magn. Reson. Med. (in press)
Real-time flow Undersampled real-time spiral acq. Reconstruction on console Steeden et al. ISMRM Workshop Sintra 2009
High Resolution Diffusion MRI • Multi-shot sequences and reconstruction. trace-weighted MD FA FA Porter et al. ISMRM 2008
and more … • Breast supine MRI to prone operation. • Image directed prostate ablation. • Motion modelling for lung radiotherapy. • Tissue biomechanical modelling. • Inverse Problems. • Tissue microstructure from MRI. • axonal radius and density from DTI-type acq. • Interactive MRI reconstructions using graphics cards. • trading spatial and temporal resolution.