Method for vascular flow pattern analysis

摘要

A method (100) of computing and displaying flow information of vascular blood flow patterns, especially in the form of quantitative data plots.

主权项

1. A method for the visualization and quantification of vascular blood flow patterns of a patient vasculature, comprising:
a. defining a region of interest of the patient vasculature from vascular images of the patient vasculature; b. extracting a centerline of the region of interest; c. computing simulated parameters of blood flow in the region of interest; d. extracting intersection planes along the extracted centerline in the region of interest; e. computing streamlines or pathlines from the computed simulated parameters of the blood flow in the region of interest; and f. visualizing points of intersection of the streamlines or of the pathlines with the intersection planes.