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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noam Alperin, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for finding a fluid conduit of a human body within a set of images collected over a portion of a cardiac cycle and where each image of the set of images is formed by a plurality of image elements. The method includes the steps of selecting a reference image element within the fluid conduit from the plurality of image elements, determining a velocity profile of each of the image elements over the cardiac cycle and identifying the fluid conduit by correlating the velocity profile of the reference element with velocity profiles at least some of the other image elements.