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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2004
Melissa L. Vass, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Darin R. Okerlund, Muskego, WI (US);
Laurent Launay, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Jasbir Singh Sra, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Melissa L. Vass, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Darin R. Okerlund, Muskego, WI (US);
Laurent Launay, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Jasbir Singh Sra, Pewaukee, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for assisting the planning of an interventional biventricular pacing procedure includes segmenting an image dataset of a heart of a patient to extract a surface of a left ventricle (LV) and a LV myocardium of the patient's heart, utilizing the segmented image dataset to divide the LV into myocardial segments or into a plurality of short axis slices, and detecting wall motion of each short axis slice of phases of a cardiac cycle of the patient's heart with respect to a reference phase. The method also includes localizing a region most recently attaining maximum displacement and a region most recently attaining maximum velocity, and generating 2D or 3D renderings including renderings indicating at least one of time delays of contraction, a maximum displacement, or a maximum velocity.