Stenosis parameter assessment from contrast medium tracking in cineangiography with an optical flow method

Bernard Imbert; Jean Meunier; Rosaire Mongrain; Gilles Hudon; Michel J. Bertrand

doi:10.1117/12.274149

25 April 1997 Stenosis parameter assessment from contrast medium tracking in cineangiography with an optical flow method

Bernard Imbert, Jean Meunier, Rosaire Mongrain, Gilles Hudon, Michel J. Bertrand

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Proceedings Volume 3034, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274149
Event: Medical Imaging 1997, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present an optical flow method to infer the blood flow in arteries by tracking the contrast medium in angiography. in our approach, the velocity field is constrained to be parabolic to take into account this particular property of laminar blood flows. With this method, we get several parameters, both hemodynamic and geometric: the artery radius, the maximum velocity, the blood flow, the centerline position of the artery and other related ones. Tests of the algorithm were conducted on simulated cineangiographic images of straight and stenotic vessels and show errors ranging from 1 percent of straight vessels and up to 10 percent for short stenosis. Preliminary results with femoral arteries are also very encouraging.

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Bernard Imbert, Jean Meunier, Rosaire Mongrain, Gilles Hudon, and Michel J. Bertrand "Stenosis parameter assessment from contrast medium tracking in cineangiography with an optical flow method", Proc. SPIE 3034, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing, (25 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274149

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