摘要:
A method for computing a color-coded analysis image of an examination area of an examination object from a temporal sequence of fluoroscopic images of the examination area comprising a vascular system containing arteries and/or veins is provided. An acquisition time instant has been assigned to each of the fluoroscopic images representing a given distribution of a material embolizing some of the vascular system. The fluoroscopic image spatially corresponds to an analysis image pixel by pixel. A computer receives the fluoroscopic images with a color attribute assigned to each pixel of the analysis image at an image point and a time instant. If a pixel differs from a pixel at a preceding time instant, the color attribute assumes a color attribute of the time instant and the difference. If a pixel corresponds to a background color of the analysis image, the color attribute assumes a background color.
摘要:
A method for computing a color-coded analysis image of an examination area of an examination object from a temporal sequence of fluoroscopic images of the examination area comprising a vascular system containing arteries and/or veins is provided. An acquisition time instant has been assigned to each of the fluoroscopic images representing a given distribution of a material embolizing some of the vascular system. The fluoroscopic image spatially corresponds to an analysis image pixel by pixel. A computer receives the fluoroscopic images with a color attribute assigned to each pixel of the analysis image at an image point and a time instant. If a pixel differs from a pixel at a preceding time instant, the color attribute assumes a color attribute of the time instant and the difference. If a pixel corresponds to a background color of the analysis image, the color attribute assumes a background color.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an imaging method with an OCT catheter for visualizing molecular functional processes in vulnerable plaques of a blood vessel of the blood vessel system of a patient, with OCT images of the contrast medium-marked vulnerable plaque being generated during continuously controlled movement of the light-emitting and light-absorbing OCT catheter head along the vulnerable plaque after the intravascular injection of a contrast medium into the blood vessel system and after the intravascular insertion of an imaging OCT catheter into the blood vessel comprising the vulnerable plaque.
摘要:
There is described an analysis method for at least one image data record of an examination object, wherein each image data record features a multiplicity of image data elements. A position in a multidimensional space is assigned to each image data element. Each image data element features an image data value. The image data values of positionally corresponding image data elements of the image data records are specified by means of at least essentially positionally identical regions of the examination object. A computer automatically divides the image data records into empty regions and signal regions, applying an overall assignment rule which is based on the image data values of the image data elements of a plurality of image data records, such that each image data element of each image data record is assigned to either its empty region or its signal region. For each image data record, the computer automatically determines a closed outline which fully contains the signal region of the relevant image data record and, on the basis of the closed outline of the relevant image data record, determines an analysis region such that a further analysis of the relevant image data record can be restricted to its analysis region.
摘要:
A determination method for reinitialization of a temporal sequence of fluoroscopic images of an examination region of an examination object is provided. The examination region comprises a vascular system including arteries and/or veins. An acquisition time is assigned to each of the images representing a given distribution of a substance in the examination region at the acquisition time. A computer receives the temporal sequence of the images, determines an evaluation image corresponding spatially on a pixel-by-pixel basis to the images, and calculates a differential value between a pixel of the evaluation image at a time and a pixel at a preceding time during a time characteristic of the sequence. A reinitialization of the temporal sequence of the images is performed at a specific time and thereafter the determination method is started over and/or repeated. The specific time is determined as a function of at least one previously calculated differential value.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for post-processing a 3D image data set of a vessel structure of a human or animal body, in which a 2D DSA (Digital Subtraction Angiography) of the vessel structure is recorded and registered with the 3D image data set. The 2D DSA is compared with a corresponding projection image computed from the 3D data set and this is changed, e.g. by changing the segmentation parameters, to adapt it to the 2D DSA. This enables the outstanding local resolution of the 2D DSA to be used for improving the 3D image data set.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for tomographically displaying a cavity by optical coherence tomography (OCT) and to an OCT device, wherein the path length of a measuring light beam in the catheter can change as a result of a movement of the catheter and brings about a change in the display scale, wherein a possible change in the path length of the measuring light beam in the event of a movement of the catheter is electronically determined and automatically compensated.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and to a device for visualizing objects, in particular non-rigid objects. The method and the device are particularly suitable to visualizing three-dimensional objects in the case of medical interventions.The method comprises: providing a three-dimensional image data record of the object, successively taking a series of two-dimensional image data records of the object, individually registering each individual two-dimensional image data record with the three-dimensional image data record, functionally evaluating functional parameters from the successively taken two-dimensional images, extracting two-dimensional projections from the three-dimensional image data record, and superimposing the recorded two-dimensional images with the extracted two-dimensional projections. A clean copy of the abstract that incorporates the above amendments is provided herewith on a separate page.
摘要:
A determination method for reinitialization of a temporal sequence of fluoroscopic images of an examination region of an examination object is provided. The examination region comprises a vascular system including arteries and/or veins. An acquisition time is assigned to each of the images representing a given distribution of a substance in the examination region at the acquisition time. A computer receives the temporal sequence of the images, determines an evaluation image corresponding spatially on a pixel-by-pixel basis to the images, and calculates a differential value between a pixel of the evaluation image at a time and a pixel at a preceding time during a time characteristic of the sequence. A reinitialization of the temporal sequence of the images is performed at a specific time and thereafter the determination method is started over and/or repeated. The specific time is determined as a function of at least one previously calculated differential value.
摘要:
A method for predicting aneurysm growth based on CFD simulations derived from at least two angiography recordings is proposed. A first 3-D recording of the aneurysm is recorded at a first time and a first vascular geometry is determined for simulating a first CFD simulation. A second 3-D recording is recorded at a second time and a second vascular geometry is determined for simulating a second CFD simulation. The two 3-D recordings are registered and a local growth rate is determined from the two 3-D recordings. The local growth rate is correlated between the two vascular geometries with hemodynamically derived parameters from the first CFD simulation. A future vascular geometry and/or a future local growth rate is predicted based on the correlation parameters, the hemodynamic parameters from the second CFD simulation and the second vascular geometry.