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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2007
Andrew F Hall, St. Charles, MO (US);
Ashraf Mohamed, Houston, TX (US);
Teri Moore, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Esther Rohm, Houston, TX (US);
Frank Sauer, Princeton, NJ (US);
Andrew F Hall, St. Charles, MO (US);
Ashraf Mohamed, Houston, TX (US);
Teri Moore, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Esther Rohm, Houston, TX (US);
Frank Sauer, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of assessing rupture risk of an aneurysm from time-resolved images includes injecting a contrast enhancing agent into a patient with an aneurysm, using an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal to trigger an image acquisition run, wherein a sequence of 2D X-ray fluoroscopic images is acquired along with a corresponding ECG signal value, rotating a C-arm attaching the X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus during said image acquisition run, wherein the images in said X-ray fluoroscopic image sequence are acquired from a rotating viewpoint, sorting the images in said X-ray fluoroscopic image sequence into time windows of the cardiac cycle based on the ECG signal, and constructing one or more 3-dimensional (3D) angiography image volumes of said aneurysm from said 2D fluoroscopic image sequence.