Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for determining vascular velocity using medical imaging
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Application No.: US16685713Application Date: 2019-11-15
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Publication No.: US11406339B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Charles A. Mistretta , Martin Wagner
- Applicant: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Applicant Address: US WI Madison
- Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Current Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: US WI Madison
- Agency: Quarles & Brady LLP
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B5/021 ; A61B5/026 ; A61B5/00 ; G06T11/00 ; G06T7/20 ; G06T7/00 ; A61B6/03

Abstract:
A system and method are provided for determining vascular velocity using non-invasively acquired medical images. The method includes reconstructing CT angiography (CTA) data into a plurality of images of the subject by producing a composite image using the CTA data corresponding to a set of the plurality of view angles, backprojecting each view angle in the CTA data and weighting a value backprojected into at image pixel by an attenuation value of a corresponding pixel in the composite image, and summing backprojected values for each image pixel to produce a CT image of the subject. The method also includes determining a flow direction or a velocity of flow within a vessel, calculating, using the flow direction or velocity, a pressure in the vessel, and generating a quantitative map of the subject indicating the flow direction, velocity, or pressure in the vessel against an image of the subject including the vessel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200155103A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VASCULAR VELOCITY USING MEDICAL IMAGING Public/Granted day:2020-05-21
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