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Kinematic MRI Tracking of Wrist Carpal Bones
Mohammad Zarenia1, Volkan Emre Arpinar1, Andrew S. Nencka1, L. Tugan Muftuler2, and Kevin M. Koch1
1Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Through the use of an advanced 4D MRI acquisition technique and a novel boundary-based slab-to-volume registration approach, the feasibility of kinematic metric tracking of unconstrained wrist motion is demonstrated. 
Visualization of the fixed and the resulting registered volumes of Scaphoid and Lunate. The black lines depict the boundaries of the moving frames.
Kinematic profile of radial-ulnar deviation of scaphoid-lunate (SL) interval; (a) SL interval constructed by navigating two stablished points at the boundaries of the fixed images. (b) SL Center of Mass (COM) distance.