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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1997
Mats Andersson, S-582 37 Linkoping, SE;
Hans Knutsson, S-582 47 Linkoping, SE;
Torbjorn Kronander, S-590 50 Vikingstad, SE;
Other;
Abstract
A method of imaging a blood vessel in a body using X-rays and an injectable contrast medium is described. The contrast medium is injected into the body, and signals constituted by an X-ray image sequence depicting X-ray attenuation values is recorded. The X-ray attenuated values in each spaced-time neighborhood are combined in a way that is dependent on the processed image sequence and separately established for each neighborhood, and separating, from background and vessel signals, flow signals having energy contributions mainly in an area of frequency domain bounded by surfaces corresponding to threshold velocities separately established for each neighborhood, which surfaces are shifted a specified amount along a temporal frequency axis.