Method of imaging the blood flow in a vascular tree

US6823204B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV · NL

Inventors

• Michael Grass · Hanstedt, DE
• Holger Schmitt · Berlin, DE
• Volker Rasche · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 9, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 10, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T17/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of imaging a vascular tree that yields additional information concerning the vascular tree. To this end, a sequence of clusters is determined from spatially coherent voxels in the three-dimensional image of the vascular tree, the sequence of said clusters corresponding to the flow direction of the blood or the contrast medium in said vascular tree.