Method and system for patient-specific modeling of blood flow
AssigneeHeartFlow, Inc.
InventorCHARLES A. TAYLOR
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Abstract
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patients heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.
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1-184. (canceled)
A system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient, the system comprising:
- at least one computer system configured to execute a method, the method comprising:
- retrieving data for each of a plurality of patients, the data including an invasively obtained measurement of blood flow characteristic and a blood flow characteristic computed based at least in part on a respective boundary condition;
- and
- determining boundary conditions tuning characteristics by iteratively comparing computed blood flow characteristics to invasively obtained measurements of blood flow characteristics of each of the patients.
A method for determining cardiovascular information for a patient using at least one computer system, the method comprising:
- retrieving, using at least one processor, data for each of a plurality of patients, the data including an invasively obtained measurement of blood flow characteristic and a blood flow characteristic computed based at least in part on a respective boundary condition;
- and
- determining, using the at least one processor, boundary conditions tuning characteristics by iteratively comparing computed blood flow characteristics to invasively obtained measurements of blood flow characteristics of each of the patients.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for use on at least one computer system containing computer-executable programming instructions for performing a method for determining cardiovascular information for a patient, the method comprising:
- retrieving data for each of a plurality of patients, the data including an invasively obtained measurement of blood flow characteristic and a blood flow characteristic computed based at least in part on a respective boundary condition;
- and
- determining boundary conditions tuning characteristics by iteratively comparing computed blood flow characteristics to invasively obtained measurements of blood flow characteristics of each of the patients,
- determining the accuracy of the boundary conditions tuning characteristics by applying the boundary conditions tuning characteristics to a testing pool patient data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.