# Heart diffusion tensor exam

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242>\
**Category:** SlicerDMRI\
**Tags:** segmentation, heart, dti\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242 "2020-02-13T13:48:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Pawel\_Ozga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pawel_ozga/32/3804_2.png) [@Pawel\_Ozga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Pawel_Ozga)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242/1 "2020-02-13T13:48:36Z")

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Hi,

has anyone tried to make tractography out of heart DTI (not DWI) exams? Exam was made with 16 tensors and one direction. What’s worse the DTI include’s just a small part of chest while the ROI of structure sequence is for the whole chest.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242/2 "2020-02-13T14:06:13Z")

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I’m not sure anyone’s tried that, at least not recently (I had a heart DWI once in the past).

If you have sample data to share that might help you get some suggestions.

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**Author:** ![Pawel\_Ozga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pawel_ozga/32/3804_2.png) [@Pawel\_Ozga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Pawel_Ozga)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242/3 "2020-02-13T22:57:10Z")

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On PubMed, you can find some more papers abut such exams but recently no one is interested in it anymore.  
You can download exams here: [Heart DTI](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BpZXPCGIq8gloMdtOlOar7Ivp8t5OPcy/view?usp=sharing)

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**Author:** ![Pawel\_Ozga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pawel_ozga/32/3804_2.png) [@Pawel\_Ozga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Pawel_Ozga)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242/4 "2020-02-14T14:10:16Z")

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It is possible to make such examination (I’ve attached photos), now, how to set the right set of DTI sequences or protocols for GE Optima MR 450w and GE Signa Artist 1,5T and make slicer to visualize it.

 ![Heart Muscle Fibres Poster by Ucl Cabi](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/4/7/478b49e3998baaafc91773e31cf2a8a86d3ab13f.jpeg) ![Instagram post by Science Teacher- Biology Minds • Feb 18, 2016 at 1_22am UTC](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/9/c/9c288faa38c82059e49078c97a6d0a4ab0608837.jpeg) ![Tractography of the heart muscle](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/b/9/b9290c5b6d8e42e4ce78550115c19872856a7005.jpeg) ![Картинки по запросу beautiful mri](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/6/c/6c9d14daf89b4c7a0213cc71a2498aad72531d98.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![tomasz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@tomasz](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/tomasz)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/heart-diffusion-tensor-exam/10242/5 "2020-02-17T19:14:12Z")

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Hi Paweł, thank you for sharing the images. Do you have any database for the atria or is it available online?

Kind regards,  
Tomasz