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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
May. 25, 2004
Applicants:
Thomas O'donnell, New York, NY (US);
Brett Cowan, Auckland, NZ;
Alistair Young, Auckland, NZ;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus of determining optimal viewing planes for cardiac image acquisition, wherein the method includes acquiring a set of sagittal, axial, and coronal images of a heart, where the axial and coronal images intersect with the sagittal image orthogonally, and where the heart has a natural axis and a left ventricle ('LV') with a bloodpool, a bloodpool border, and an apex. The method also includes making a map of the bloodpool border, and using the map to create a full coordinate frame oriented along the natural axis.