Tags are non-invasive features induced in the heart muscle that enable the tracking of heart motion. Each tag line, in fact,
corresponds to a 3D tag surface that deforms with the heart muscle during the cardiac cycle. Tracking of tag surfaces
deformation is useful for the analysis of left ventricular motion. Cardiac material markers (Kerwin et al, MIA, 1997) can
be obtained from the intersections of orthogonal surfaces which can be reconstructed from short- and long-axis tagged
images. The proposed method uses Harmonic Phase (HARP) method for tracking tag lines corresponding to a specific
harmonic phase value and then the reconstruction of grid tag surfaces is achieved by a Delaunay triangulation-based
interpolation for sparse tag points. Having three different tag orientations from short- and long-axis images, the proposed
method showed the deformation of 3D tag surfaces during the cardiac cycle. Previous work on tag surface reconstruction
was restricted for the "dark" tag lines; however, the use of HARP as proposed enables the reconstruction of isosurfaces
based on their harmonic phase values. The use of HARP, also, provides a fast and accurate way for tag lines
identification and tracking, and hence, generating the surfaces.
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