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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Stian Langeland, Horten, NO;
Sten Roar Snare, Olso, NO;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a process for displaying ultrasound data representative of a rotationally symmetrical contractible chamber or vessel within a patient which involves obtaining ultrasound data from the ultrasound imaging of the vessel or chamber through at least a phase of one cardiac cycle and virtually sectioning the vessel or chamber into multiple circumferential segments, each extending its own longitudinal distance from a common reference point. The data is used to obtain rotational parameters representative of an entire circumferential segment of the chamber or vessel. The process is repeated until a rotational parameter for each entire circumferential segment along a desired distance of the longitudinal axis of the chamber or vessel has been obtained. The rotational parameters are displayed in a two dimensional format having annular rings with each annular ring being representative of a given circumferential segment.