Bandpass optical flow for tagged MR imaging

MR tagging has shown great promise for detailed noninvasive cardiac motion imaging. We consider the use of low-frequency tags coupled with gradient-based optical flow estimation to compute cardiac motion. A multiple constraint optical flow method for tagged MRI is formulated by exploiting the Fourier content of the tagged images. The method is validated on simulated tagged data.

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