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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventors:
Sasa Grbic, Princeton, NJ (US);
Tommaso Mansi, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Ingmar Voigt, Erlangen, DE;
Julian Krebs, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G06T 7/251 (2017.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/503 (2013.01); A61B 6/52 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/488 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00783 (2013.01); A61B 2034/104 (2016.02); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2576/023 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01);
Abstract
In valve modeling from medical scan data, chordae are modeled as a dense structure. Rather than attempting to provide the same number of chordae (e.g., 25) as found in a human valve, hundreds or thousands of chordae connectors are used. Since solving for lengths of so many chordae may be computationally intensive, the lengths of only a few are solved, and the lengths of the rest of the chordae are derived from the lengths of the few.