NONINVASIVE METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE PRESURE GRADIENT ACROSS A HEART VALVE WITHOUT USING VELOCITY DATA AT THE VALVE ORIFICE
    4.
    发明申请
    NONINVASIVE METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE PRESURE GRADIENT ACROSS A HEART VALVE WITHOUT USING VELOCITY DATA AT THE VALVE ORIFICE 有权
    用于通过心脏瓣膜确定视力梯度的无创方法,不使用阀门上的速度数据

    公开(公告)号:US20130066229A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-14

    申请号:US13229742

    申请日:2011-09-11

    申请人: Steven D. Wolff

    发明人: Steven D. Wolff

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00

    摘要: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and methods for imaging-assisted determination of pressure gradient of blood flow across a valve orifice in a cardiovascular circuit without the use of velocity data measured at the valve orifice. An embodiment of the methods comprise creating an image of a valve orifice, creating a planimeter slice from the image of the valve orifice including a trace of the perimeter of the valve orifice, determining the valve orifice area by determining the area contained within the trace, determining the instantaneous flow rate through the valve orifice based on bulk flow data away from the valve, and determining the instantaneous pressure gradient across the valve orifice from the valve orifice area and the instantaneous flow rate.

    摘要翻译: 本文提出的实施例提供了用于成像辅助确定在心血管电路中的瓣孔上的血流压力梯度的装置和方法,而不使用在阀孔处测量的速度数据。 所述方法的一个实施例包括创建阀孔的图像,从阀孔的图像创建平面图切片,包括阀孔的周边的痕迹,通过确定痕迹中包含的区域来确定阀孔面积, 基于离开阀的大量流动数据确定通过阀孔的瞬时流量,以及从阀孔面积和瞬时流量确定跨越阀孔的瞬时压力梯度。

    Method and apparatus for MR perfusion image acquisition using a notched RF saturation pulse
    6.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for MR perfusion image acquisition using a notched RF saturation pulse 有权
    使用缺口RF饱和脉冲进行MR灌注图像采集的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06618605B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-09

    申请号:US09391965

    申请日:1999-09-08

    IPC分类号: A61B5055

    CPC分类号: G01R33/56341 G01R33/4838

    摘要: A method and apparatus is disclosed for MR perfusion acquisition using a notched RF saturation pulse. In acquiring such MR data, a volume of slice locations is selected in which MR data is to be acquired. Each given slice is prepared with a notched RF saturation pulse which has a stop-band between a pair of pass-bands. The stop-band is designed to not affect the spins in the next slice in which MR data is to be acquired thereby effectively increasing the TI and increasing SNR and contrast simultaneously. Since the notched saturation pulse saturates all the spins outside of the notched stop-band, the blood in the ventricular chamber is effectively saturated so that the resulting perfusion images have blood pool suppression. Additionally, the use of a 90° presaturation RF pulse provides a high level of immunity to the effects of arrhythmias or other variations in the patient's heart rate. In order to keep the stop-band, or the notch, as wide as possible to overlap the boundaries of each slice location, it is preferable to interleave the acquisition of slice locations.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种使用缺口RF饱和脉冲进行MR灌注采集的方法和装置。 在获取这样的MR数据时,选择要获取MR数据的片段位置量。 每个给定的切片用具有一对通带之间的阻带的缺口RF饱和脉冲来制备。 阻带被设计成不影响将要获取MR数据的下一个切片中的自旋,从而有效地增加TI并同时增加SNR和对比度。 由于缺口饱和脉冲饱和了缺口挡带外的所有旋转,所以心室内的血液被有效地饱和,使得所得到的灌注图像具有血液池抑制。 另外,90°预饱和RF脉冲的使用可以提供高度的抗心律失常作用或其他变化对患者心率的影响。 为了使阻带或陷波尽可能地保持与每个切片位置的边界重叠,优选地切片切片位置的获取。

    Local magnetization spoiling using a gradient insert for reducing the field of view in magnetic resonance imaging
    7.
    发明授权
    Local magnetization spoiling using a gradient insert for reducing the field of view in magnetic resonance imaging 有权
    使用梯度插入件进行局部磁化破坏,以减少磁共振成像中的视场

    公开(公告)号:US06384601B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-07

    申请号:US09403530

    申请日:1999-10-19

    IPC分类号: G01V300

    CPC分类号: G01R33/4838

    摘要: A method, and related apparatus, for suppressing the magnetic resonance signal to an experimentally adjustable depth by applying a spatially inhomogeneous field between the slice-select pulse and the data acquisition. Eliminating the signal from near surface regions allows one to shrink the field of view of an image without introducing aliasing artifacts, thereby improving the image's resolution or decreasing imaging time. Experimental tests on a phantom and a human subject indicate that the depth of signal suppression may be continuously varied to depths of over 80 millimeters with modest requirements on power supplies, pulse sequences, and materials.

    摘要翻译: 一种通过在切片选择脉冲和数据采集之间施加空间不均匀场来将磁共振信号抑制到实验可调深度的方法和相关装置。 消除来自近表面区域的信号允许缩小图像的视野而不引入混叠伪像,从而改善图像的分辨率或降低成像时间。 对幻影和人类受试者进行的实验测试表明,信号的抑制深度可以连续地变化到超过80毫米的深度,对电源,脉冲序列和材料的要求不高。

    Noninvasive methods for determining the pressure gradient across a heart valve without using velocity data at the valve orifice
    10.
    发明授权
    Noninvasive methods for determining the pressure gradient across a heart valve without using velocity data at the valve orifice 有权
    用于确定心脏瓣膜上的压力梯度的无创方法,而不使用阀口处的速度数据

    公开(公告)号:US09585568B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-07

    申请号:US13229742

    申请日:2011-09-11

    申请人: Steven D. Wolff

    发明人: Steven D. Wolff

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61B5/02 A61B5/107

    摘要: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and methods for imaging-assisted determination of pressure gradient of blood flow across a valve orifice in a cardiovascular circuit without the use of velocity data measured at the valve orifice. An embodiment of the methods comprise creating an image of a valve orifice, creating a planimeter slice from the image of the valve orifice including a trace of the perimeter of the valve orifice, determining the valve orifice area by determining the area contained within the trace, determining the instantaneous flow rate through the valve orifice based on bulk flow data away from the valve, and determining the instantaneous pressure gradient across the valve orifice from the valve orifice area and the instantaneous flow rate.

    摘要翻译: 本文提出的实施例提供了用于成像辅助确定在心血管电路中的瓣孔上的血流压力梯度的装置和方法,而不使用在阀孔处测量的速度数据。 所述方法的一个实施例包括创建阀孔的图像,从阀孔的图像创建平面图切片,包括阀孔的周边的痕迹,通过确定痕迹中包含的区域来确定阀孔面积, 基于离开阀的大量流动数据确定通过阀孔的瞬时流量,以及从阀孔面积和瞬时流量确定跨越阀孔的瞬时压力梯度。