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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: Radiology. 2008 Jan;246(1):229–240. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2461070053

Figure 5.

Figure 5

(a) The kernel of a fixed filter is identical at all locations. This short-axis view shows identical circular kernels at two locations in the left ventricle. (b) The kernel of an adaptive filter is always aligned with the local circumferential direction. The same short-axis view shows the arc-shaped kernels at two locations in the left ventricle.