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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2009
Applicants:
Ying Sun, Singapore, SG;
Jens Gühring, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Ying Sun, Singapore, SG;
Jens Gühring, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for automatically generating a myocardial perfusion map from a sequence of magnetic resonance (MR) images includes determining a region of interest (ROI) in a reference frame selected from a time series of myocardial perfusion MR image slices, registering each image slice in the time series of slices to the reference frame to obtain a series of registered ROIs, and using the series of registered ROIs to segment endo- and epi-cardial boundaries of a myocardium in the ROI.