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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Stephen Michael Moore, Melbourne, AU;
Kerry J. Halupka, Northcote, AU;
Yasmin Blunck, Brunswick West, AU;
Sergiy Zhuk, Dublin, IR;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for imaging a coronary arterial system of an individual includes releasing, using an actuator, pulses of a radio-opaque dye into a coronary arterial tree of the individual. The method further includes obtaining, using an image capture device, a sequence of invasive coronary x-ray angiogram images over time of the pulses of the radio-opaque dye. The method also includes tracking, using a processor, the pulses through the sequence of invasive coronary x-ray angiogram images and locating the pulses on a three dimensional (3D) structural model of the coronary arterial system to generate a three dimensional (3D) functional model of the coronary arterial system that shows a trajectory of the dye as it flows through different arterial branches.