COMPUTER AIDED TREATMENT PLANNING AND VISUALIZATION WITH IMAGE REGISTRATION AND FUSION

摘要

Figure 5 is a pictorial diagram illustrating a branched section of a blood vessel with plaque build-up resulting in stenosis. From step 315, the lumen of the artery (500) can be extracted and the regions of possible stenosis (505) can be identified. The artery exhibits a first arterial section (510) which branches at a bifurcation point (515) into an internal arterial branch (520) and an external arterial branch (525). The bifurcation point (515) can be determined and selected as the control point for subsequent registration operations.