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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2007
Herve Jun Alfred Lombaert, Montreal, CA;
Frank Sauer, Princeton, NJ (US);
Yiyong Sun, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Chenyang Xu, Allentown, NJ (US);
Herve Jun Alfred Lombaert, Montreal, CA;
Frank Sauer, Princeton, NJ (US);
Yiyong Sun, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Chenyang Xu, Allentown, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, unknown;
Abstract
A method of performing 4-dimensional virtual endoscopy includes acquiring a sequence of cardiac images of a patient's heart from an imaging device; acquiring an electrocardiographic signal exhibiting cardiac cycles of the heart; and utilizing the electrocardiographic signal to gate the images for deriving respective 3-dimensional views in succession at corresponding cardiac cycles, from respective cardiac images at a selected phase point common to each of the corresponding cardiac cycles.