Simulation of water diffusion through a simple virtual cardiac cell model: optimization of Monte Carlo parameters and observation by simulated MRI
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yuhan Jing; Carole Frindel; Isabelle E. Magnin
- Source
- 2020 15th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP).
- Subject
- Physics
Sequence
medicine.diagnostic_test
SIMPLE (military communications protocol)
0206 medical engineering
Monte Carlo method
Magnetic resonance imaging
02 engineering and technology
020601 biomedical engineering
Signal
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Spin echo
Water diffusion
Diffusion (business)
Biological system
- Language
This paper describes a two fold strategy. First, we create a Monte-Carlo water diffusion simulator able to generate realistic synthetic diffusion data. Second, we observe this synthetical diffusion by simulating a virtual magnetic resonance diffusion imaging device (spin echo sequence). We show how to adequately run Monte-Carlo simulations in a cylindrical core (similar to a cardiac cell shape model) and we optimize the virtual imaging simulated parameters. We compare the virtual diffusion magnetic resonance signal obtained for various values of the parameters to the corresponding analytical models. We give a first analysis of the deviation results when usual clinical parameters are used.