1 Regional Stress and Strain in Healthy and Diseased Ventricular Myocardium -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Ventricular Geometry and Structure -- 1.3 Regional Myocardial Mechanics -- 1.4 Engineering Models of Wall Stress -- 1.5 Analyzing Wall Strain Distributions -- 1.6 Regional Strain Distributions in Disease -- 1.7 Future Directions -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 1 -- 2 Clinical Applications of Cardiac Tagging -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Imaging Techniques -- 2.3 Tagged Image Data Analysis -- 2.4 MR Tagging in Normal Human Heart -- 2.5 MR Tagging in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 2.6 MR Tagging in Left Ventricular Hypertrophy -- 2.7 Cardiomyopathies -- 2.8 Right Ventricular Mechanics -- 2.9 Pericardial Constriction -- 2.10 Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 2 -- 3 Finite Element Modeling for Three-Dimensional Motion Reconstruction and Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Finite Element Model -- 3.3 Model Tags: 3D Formulation -- 3.4 Reconstruction of RV Surface Deformation -- 3.5 Principal Component Analysis -- 3.6 PCA of Normal Geometry and Deformation -- 3.7 Future Work -- References for Chapter 3 -- 4 Modeling and analysis of the RV and LV from MRI-SPAMM -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Biventricular Model Geometry -- 4.4 Motion and Deformation Analysis -- 4.5 Results -- 4.6 Discussion -- 4.7 Conclusions and Future Work -- Acknowledgments -- Finite Element Shape Functions -- Strain Calculation Using Finite Elements -- References for Chapter 4 -- 5 Motion Analysis of the Whole Heart -- 5.1 Motivation and Background -- 5.2 Introduction and Background -- 5.3 Methods -- 5.4 Results -- 5.5 Discussion -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 5 -- 6 Harmonic Phase MR -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Harmonic Model of Tagged MR Images -- 6.3 HARP Motion Measurement Principles -- 6.4 CINE-HARP (CHARP) Methods -- 6.5 Single-shot HARP (SHARP) Methods -- 6.6 Combining CHARP and SHARP Methods -- 6.7 Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 6 -- 7 Automated Tag Detection -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Signal Models -- 7.3 Tag Center Estimation -- 7.4 Hypothesis Testing -- 7.5 Algorithm Implementation -- 7.6 In Vivo Experiments -- 7.7 Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Likelihood Function Derivative -- References for Chapter 7 -- 8 Analysis of Tagged MR Cardiac Images with B-spline Models -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 B-spline basics -- 8.3 Coupled B-snake Grids -- 8.4 Constrained Thin-Plate Spline Reconstruction -- 8.5 Measurement of 3D Motion of Myocardial Beads -- 8.6 Conclusions -- 8.7 Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 8 -- 9 MR Physics and Imaging of Phase Contrast MR -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Basic Principles of Phase Contrast MRI -- 9.3 Implementation issues -- 9.4 Data Processing -- 9.5 Results -- 9.6 Discussion -- Signal Phase -- References for Chapter 9 -- 10 Myocardial Spatiotemporal Tracking -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 DMESH Motion/Strain Mapping -- 10.3 Experiments -- 10.4 Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 10 -- 11 Computational Platforms for Integrated Cardiac Image Analysis -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Obtaining Estimates of Cardiac Displacements -- 11.3 Modeling used for Interpolation and Smoothing -- 11.5 Future Research Directions -- Acknowledgments -- References for Chapter 11.