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AssigneeSiemens Healthcare GmbH
InventorsDirk Ertel, Yiannis Kyriakou
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Determining collateral information describing blood flow in collaterals of a blood vessel system in a target region of a patient from a four-dimensional vascular data set describing image values of temporal flow of a contrast medium and/or marked blood constituents as recorded by a medical imaging device is provided. A method includes segmenting the blood vessel system in the vascular data set and determining collaterals among the segmented blood vessels by a collateral classifier. For all collaterals determined, a diameter of the collateral is determined taking into account the segmentation, a filling parameter describing the filling of the collaterals, and a time parameter describing the time response relative to a reference point in the blood vessel system from a temporal course of the image values in a portion of the collaterals under consideration. The method includes determining the collateral information from the diameter, the filling parameter, and the time parameter.
A method for determining collateral information describing blood flow in collaterals of a blood vessel system in a target region of a patient from a four-dimensional vascular data set recorded by a medical imaging device describing, in the four-dimensional vascular data values, temporal flow of a contrast medium, marked blood constituents or temporal flow of a contrast medium and marked blood constituents through the target region, the method comprising:
A medical imaging device comprising:
A computer program product comprising program code stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the program code, when executed on a computer, is configured to:
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