Fractional flow reserve determination

    公开(公告)号:US10552958B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15570620

    申请日:2016-04-26

    摘要: The present invention relates to a device (1) for fractional flow reserve determination, the device (1) comprising: a model source (10) configured to provide a first three-dimensional model (3DM1) of a portion of an imaged vascular vessel tree (VVT) surrounding a stenosed vessel segment (SVS) and configured to provide a second three-dimensional model (3DM2) of a pressure wire insertable into the vascular vessel tree (VVT); and a processor (20) configured to calculate a first blood flow (Q1) through the stenosed vessel segment (SVS) with the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first and the second three-dimensional model and to calculate a second blood flow (Q2) through the stenosed vessel segment (SVS) without the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first three-dimensional model (3DM1) and to determine a first fractional flow reserve value (FFR1) to be measured with the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the first blood flow (Q1) and to determine a second fractional flow reserve value (FFR2) to be measured without the pressure wire (PW) inserted into the vascular vessel tree (VVT) based on the second blood flow (Q1).

    Image quality driven non-rigid image registration

    公开(公告)号:US10290102B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US14405007

    申请日:2013-06-18

    摘要: An image registration apparatus (118) includes an image quality driven image registration determiner (202) that determines an image quality driven image registration for a set of images to register based on a non-rigid registration (204), which includes an optimization of an image similarity term and a regularization term, and a registration steering factor, and a registration component (206) that registers the set of images using the image quality driven image registration. A method determining an image quality driven image registration for a set of images to register based on a non-rigid registration, which includes an optimization of an image similarity term and a regularization term, and a registration steering factor, and registering the set of images using the fidelity driven image registration, generating a set of registered images.

    Apparatus for iterative material decomposition of multispectral data

    公开(公告)号:US11410305B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US16967446

    申请日:2019-02-01

    IPC分类号: G06T7/00 G16H30/40 G06T5/00

    摘要: Iterative material decomposition of multispectral image data includes providing a plurality of spectral images of a region of interest comprising a body part and a plurality of sets of material coefficients for a plurality of materials. Each spectral image is decomposed into a plurality of material images and an offset image. At least one of the material images for each spectral image is manipulated on the basis of at least one topological constraint relating to the body part to determine for each spectral image an updated plurality of material images and an updated offset image. A plurality of spectral images is then recomposed from the corresponding updated plurality of material images and the updated offset. Intensities at image locations are compared, and the updated plurality of material images is modified. The steps are repeated until convergence, and at least one of the recomposed spectral images at convergence is output.

    Device and method for modelling a composition of an object of interest

    公开(公告)号:US11042987B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US16606249

    申请日:2018-04-18

    摘要: A method for modelling a composition of an object of interest comprises segmenting object of interest image data provided by computer tomography image data resulting in a plurality of image segments. A determined Hounsfield density value is then extracted from the object of interest image data for each image segment. A component ratio of at least two component classes is defined for the object of interest, the at least two component classes having different component Hounsfield density values. At least one component class is assigned to each image segment based on the corresponding determined Hounsfield density value resulting in simulated image segments comprising the component Hounsfield density values. The simulated image segments define simulated image data of the object of interest, where a ratio of the assigned component classes corresponds to the component ratio. A deviation between the simulated image data and the object of interest image data is then determined.

    Heart model guided coronary artery segmentation

    公开(公告)号:US10902606B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US16060453

    申请日:2016-12-19

    摘要: A system (100) for segmenting a coronary artery vessel tree (182) of a patient heart in a three dimensional (3D) cardiac image (120) includes a coronary volume definition unit (150) and a coronary artery segmentation unit (180). The coronary volume definition unit (150) sets a spatial boundary (210, 220) from internal and external surfaces of heart tissues in the 3D cardiac image based on a fitted heart model (200). The coronary artery segmentation unit (180) segments the coronary artery vessel tree (182) in the 3D cardiac image using a segmentation algorithm with a search space limited by the spatial boundary set from the internal and external surfaces of the heart tissues.

    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phantom for computed tomography (CT) and methods of using the same

    公开(公告)号:US10219773B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US14418471

    申请日:2013-07-29

    摘要: An imaging system (10) analyzes airways of a patient. The system (10) includes a hardware phantom (50) including tubes (54) representative of airways. The tubes (54) include different lumen sizes and/or wall thicknesses. The system further includes an imaging scanner (12) for scanning a region of interest (ROI), including the airways, and the hardware phantom (50) to create raw image data. At least one processor (32) is programmed to at least one of: (1) correct measurements of walls of the airways based on measurements of lumen size and/or wall thickness of the tubes (54) and known lumen size and/or wall thickness of the tubes (54); and (2) generate an image of the ROI in which color and/or opacity of the airways are based on a comparison of images or maps of the tubes (54) and images or maps of the airways. A corresponding method is also provided.