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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2008
Corinna Maier, Princeton, NJ (US);
Corinna Maier, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
A method for monitoring left ventricular (LV) myocardial wall thickness. The method includes: obtaining real time images of a periodically spatially changing myocardium and segmenting the myocardium in such images; calculating wall thickness of the myocardium from each one of the obtained images; and performing a dynamic harmonic analysis of the calculated thickness to determine spatial changes in the thickness of the wall of the myocardium. The method applies the calculated wall thickness to a predictor to determine changes in the thickness of the wall of the myocardium. The method applies the calculated wall thickness to a predictor to determine the periodicity the myocardium.