Extended Synthetic Validation of Optical Flow-Based Velocity Field Reconstruction for AAA Cine-MRI: Angular Velocity, Noise Robustness, and Dense Flow Comparison
This study extends the validation of Pyramidal Lucas–Kanade optical flow for AAA cine-MRI by introducing a new synthetic phantom with closed-form ground truth to demonstrate that the method's optimal window size is motion-regime dependent, that it outperforms dense Farneback flow in noise robustness, and that it accurately recovers angular velocities matching real-patient data.