Three-dimensional models of individual cardiac histoanatomy: tools and challenges

TY - JOUR

T1 - Three-dimensional models of individual cardiac histoanatomy

T2 - tools and challenges

AU - Burton, Rebecca A B

AU - Plank, Gernot

AU - Schneider, Jürgen E

AU - Grau, Vicente

AU - Ahammer, Helmut

AU - Keeling, Stephen L

AU - Lee, Jack

AU - Smith, Nicolas P

AU - Gavaghan, David

AU - Trayanova, Natalia

AU - Kohl, Peter

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - There is a need for, and utility in, the acquisition of data sets of cardiac histoanatomy, with the vision of reconstructing individual hearts on the basis of noninvasive imaging, such as MRI, enriched by reference to detailed atlases of serial histology obtained from representative samples. These data sets would be useful not only as a repository of knowledge regarding the specifics of cardiac histoanatomy, but could form the basis for generation of individualized high-resolution cardiac structure-function models. The current article presents a step in this general direction: it illustrates how whole-heart noninvasive imaging can be combined with whole-heart histology in an approach to achieve automated construction of histoanatomically detailed models of cardiac 3D structure and function at hitherto unprecedented resolution and accuracy (based on 26.4 x 26.4 x 24.4 microm MRI voxel size, and enriched by histological detail). It provides an overview of the tools used in this quest and outlines challenges posed by the approach in the light of applications that may benefit from the availability of such data and tools.

AB - There is a need for, and utility in, the acquisition of data sets of cardiac histoanatomy, with the vision of reconstructing individual hearts on the basis of noninvasive imaging, such as MRI, enriched by reference to detailed atlases of serial histology obtained from representative samples. These data sets would be useful not only as a repository of knowledge regarding the specifics of cardiac histoanatomy, but could form the basis for generation of individualized high-resolution cardiac structure-function models. The current article presents a step in this general direction: it illustrates how whole-heart noninvasive imaging can be combined with whole-heart histology in an approach to achieve automated construction of histoanatomically detailed models of cardiac 3D structure and function at hitherto unprecedented resolution and accuracy (based on 26.4 x 26.4 x 24.4 microm MRI voxel size, and enriched by histological detail). It provides an overview of the tools used in this quest and outlines challenges posed by the approach in the light of applications that may benefit from the availability of such data and tools.

U2 - 10.1196/annals.1380.023

DO - 10.1196/annals.1380.023

M3 - Article

C2 - 17132791

SN - 0077-8923

VL - 1080

SP - 301

EP - 319

JO - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

JF - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

ER -