Richard Scott Huennekens,Vincent J. Burgess,Marja Pauliina Margolis,Blair D. Walker,Jon D. Klingensmith,Nancy Perry Pool,Randall Kent Hanson
申请号：
US11473974
公开号：
US08298147B2
申请日:
2006.06.23
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
A method and system are disclosed for creating, in a coordinated manner, graphical images of a body including vascular features from a combination of image data sources. The method includes initially creating an angiographic image of a vessel segment. The angiographic image is, for example, either a two or three dimensional image representation. Next, a vessel image data set is acquired that is distinct from the angiographic image data. The vessel image data set comprises information acquired at a series of positions along the vessel segment. An example of such vessel image data is a set of intravascular ultrasound frames corresponding to circumferential cross-section slices taken at various positions along the vessel segment. The angiographic image and the vessel image data set are correlated by comparing a characteristic rendered independently from both the angiographic image and the vessel image data at positions along the vessel segment.
