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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2020
Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, TW;
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TW;
Shen Chi, Hsinchu County, TW;
Po-Lin Lin, Hsinchu, TW;
Ying-Hsiang Lee, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Min Liu, Hsinchu, TW;
Long Hsu, Hsinchu, TW;
Ruo-Jing Ho, New Taipei, TW;
Chang Francis Hsu, Hsinchu, TW;
Han-Ping Huang, Yilan County, TW;
MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, TW;
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject having arterial stenosis. The method comprises: (a) providing a plurality of image frames of an artery of the subject taken in sequence; (b) in a plurality of cross-sections of the artery, determining a maximum diameter and a minimum diameter of each of the plurality of cross-sections of the artery among the plurality of image frames of the step (a); (c) calculating an average vasodilation ratio of the artery base on the maximum diameter and the minimum diameter determined in the step (b); and (d) treating the subject based on the average vasodilation ratio calculated in the step (c), by implanting a stent to the subject when the average vasodilation ratio is equal to or greater than 0.2; or administering to the subject an effective amount of a vasodilator when the average vasodilation ratio is less than 0.2.