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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2008
Vivek Vaidya, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Shekhar Dwivedi, Lucknow, IN;
Thomas K. F. Foo, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Daniel James Blezek, Rochester, MN (US);
Umesha Perdoor Srinivas Adiga, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Vivek Vaidya, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Shekhar Dwivedi, Lucknow, IN;
Thomas K. F. Foo, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Christopher Judson Hardy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Daniel James Blezek, Rochester, MN (US);
Umesha Perdoor Srinivas Adiga, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system and method to determine a coordinate system of a heart includes an imager and a computer. The computer is programmed to acquire a first set of initialization imaging data from an anatomical region of a free-breathing subject. A portion of the first set of initialization imaging data includes organ data, which includes cardiac data. The computer is further programmed to determine a location of a central region of a left ventricle of a heart, where the location is based on the organ data and a priori information. The computer is also programmed to determine a short axis of the left ventricle based on the determined location, acquire a first set of post-initialization imaging data from the free-breathing subject from an imaging plane orientation based on the determination of the short axis, and reconstruct at least one image from the first set of post-initialization imaging data.