Patent ID: 10109049

Abstract:
A method for determining wall thickness of an anatomic detail (52), in particular of the heart, of a subject of interest (20) by magnetic resonance imaging includes: defining (82) a first location (54) and a second location (56) on a surface representation; —generating (84) a line-structure of interest (60), —determining (86), for each location (62) of a plurality of locations (62), a normal direction (64); —determining (88) a mean normal direction (66); —determining (90) a mean imaging plane (68); —determining (92) a measure that is representative of angular deviations (43) of the determined normal directions (64); —based on the determined measure, determining (96) imaging planes (70); —determining (98) deviations of the determined normal directions (64) to the imaging planes (70); —acquiring (100) magnetic resonance images for all imaging planes (68, 70); and —determining (102) the wall thickness at a specific location (62) from the magnetic resonance image acquired in the imaging plane (70) that has the lowest angular deviation to the normal direction (64) at the specific location (62). A magnetic resonance imaging system (10) has a controller (26) configured to carry out steps (78-102) of the method. A software module (50) carries out the method by implementing program code from a memory (28) and executed by a processor (30) of the magnetic resonance imaging system (10).