Cardiac diagnostics using wall motion and perfusion cardiac MRI imaging and systems for cardiac diagnostics
AssigneeWake Forest University Health Sciences
InventorsCraig A. Hamilton, William Gregory Hundley
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Abstract
Cardiac information of a patient is displayed by obtaining a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, the plurality of cine loops including both wall motion cine loops and at least one perfusion cine loops and simultaneously displaying both the wall motion cine loops and the at least one perfusion cine loop.
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A method of displaying cardiac information of a patient, comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, the plurality of cine loops including cine loops including frames of wall motion images and at least one cine loop including frames of perfusion images of at least one cardiac location;
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- simultaneously displaying both wall motion cine loops and the at least one perfusion cine loop.
A system for displaying cardiac information of a patient, comprising:
- means for obtaining a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, the plurality of cine loops including cine loops including frames of wall motion images and at least one cine loop including frames of perfusion images of at least one cardiac location;
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- means for simultaneously displaying both wall motion cine loops and the at least one perfusion cine loop.
A computer program product for displaying cardiac information of a patient, comprising:
- a computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to obtain a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, the plurality of cine loops including cine loops including frames of wall motion images and at least one cine loop including frames of perfusion images of at least one cardiac location;
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- computer readable program code configured to simultaneously display both wall motion cine loops and the at least one perfusion cine loop.
A method of displaying cardiac information of a patient, comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, the plurality of cine loops including cine loops including frames of wall motion images;
- obtaining at least one perfusion image of at least one cardiac location;
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- simultaneously displaying both wall motion cine loops and the at least one perfusion image.
A user interface for MRI imaging evaluation, comprising:
- at least one region configured to display a plurality of cine loops of MRI images of cardiac wall motion;
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- at least one region configured to display at least one MRI image of cardiac perfusion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.