Joerg Bredno,Alexandra Groth,Juergen Weese,Antonius Johannes Cornelius Bruijns,Peter Maria Johannes Rongen,Ronaldus Petrus Johannes Hermans,Heidrun Steinhauser
申请号：
US12096995
公开号：
US08340744B2
申请日:
2006.12.08
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
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摘要：
A system, apparatus and method are provided for measuring and removing the influence of pulsatility on contrast agent flow in a region of interest of a vascular system of a patient. Once the change of blood speed over the cardiac cycle is known (pulsatility), this influence is removed from acquired image sequence for outcome control such that “quasi-stationary”, regular flow acquisition is passed on to subsequent visualization and analysis processes. A contrast agent injector is also provided that simultaneously measures and uses ECG to inject a known contrast agent at a fixed point over the cardiac cycle or such that a known amount of contrast agent will arrive at a known time at a region of interest in the vasculature of a patient, thus controlling one of the main unwanted variables in an acquisition of blood flow sequences.
