METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING PERFUSION ABNORMALITIES BY MEANS OF FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTERFACE REGION

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for characterizing perfusion abnormalities in tissue by means of fractal analysis (FA) of at least one part of an interface region between adequately and abnormally perfused tissue comprising the steps of providing an imaging dataset of perfusion imaging; wherein said imaging dataset visualizes the at least one part of the interface region; optional pre-processing of said imaging dataset; applying fractal analysis to the imaging dataset; wherein said fractal analysis provides at least one fractal parameter, preferably fractal dimension (FD), of the at least one part of the interface region.