QUANTITATIVE CORONARY ARTERY ANALYSIS SYSTEM

摘要

A quantitative coronary artery analysis system (30) is described which includes a determination (40) of the set of most likely data points representing the edge of an artery to enable an analysis program to calculate the dimensional information (46) of interest for a patient from an x-ray image of the selected artery wherein the program includes the steps of performing an axi-linear transform (38) of the image data with subsequent filtering, rejection and correction of selected data points (42) such that the user is provided with the calculated dimensional data (46) for an artery, other blood vessel, or organ of a patient.