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Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2007
Applicants:

Walter M. Blume, St. Louis, MO (US);

Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, St. Louis, MO (US);

Heather Drury, St. Louis, MO (US);

Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

Walter M. Blume, St. Louis, MO (US);

Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, St. Louis, MO (US);

Heather Drury, St. Louis, MO (US);

Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);

Assignee:

Stereotaxis, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of finding the location of an occluded portion of a blood vessel relative to a three-dimensional angiographic image of a subject's vasculature includes identifying the location of the occluded portion of the blood vessel on each of a series of displayed two dimensional images derived from the three dimensional image data in planes substantially transverse to direction of the occluded portion of the vessel. The identified locations in the occluded portion of the vessel can then be used to determine the path of the occluded portion of the vessel.


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