Visualization of myocardial perfusion derived from coronary anatomy

Visually assessing the effect of the coronary artery anatomy on the perfusion of the heart muscle in patients with coronary artery disease remains a challenging task. We explore the feasibility of visualizing this effect on perfusion using a numerical approach. We perform a computational simulation...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 14(2008), 6 vom: Nov., Seite 1595-602
Auteur principal: Termeer, Maurice (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Oliván Bescós, Javier, Breeuwer, Marcel, Vilanova, Anna, Gerritsen, Frans, Gröller, M Eduard, Nagel, Eike
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2008
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Résumé:Visually assessing the effect of the coronary artery anatomy on the perfusion of the heart muscle in patients with coronary artery disease remains a challenging task. We explore the feasibility of visualizing this effect on perfusion using a numerical approach. We perform a computational simulation of the way blood is perfused throughout the myocardium purely based on information from a three-dimensional anatomical tomographic scan. The results are subsequently visualized using both three-dimensional visualizations and bull's eye plots, partially inspired by approaches currently common in medical practice. Our approach results in a comprehensive visualization of the coronary anatomy that compares well to visualizations commonly used for other scanning technologies. We demonstrate techniques giving detailed insight in blood supply, coronary territories and feeding coronary arteries of a selected region. We demonstrate the advantages of our approach through visualizations that show information which commonly cannot be directly observed in scanning data, such as a separate visualization of the supply from each coronary artery. We thus show that the results of a computational simulation can be effectively visualized and facilitate visually correlating these results to for example perfusion data
Description:Date Completed 30.12.2008
Date Revised 07.11.2008
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2008.180