Abstract
Atherosclerosis is a frequent disease in developed countries. Any vessels’ morphological impairments lead to blood flow changes. Even if vessels’ hemodynamic patterns extraction from X-ray fluoroscopic angiography has stimulated many scientists for 60 years, there is not a robust method to be implemented into angiography software to be used in daily clinics such as in the catheterism laboratories.
A new algorithm is implemented into a graphical user interface for estimating blood velocity of the vessel’s segments selected from coronary monoplane angiography. The method is not invasive except from the medical imaging acquisition. The method includes the detection of the absolute vessel length, the blood transit time and hence, velocity estimation for a vessel segment from 20 patients.
The validation is done using the measurements from the medical scientific literature. A further validation with a blood vessel phantom is considered.
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The work has been funded by the Operational Programme Human Capital of the Ministry of European Funds through the Financial Agreement 51675/09.07.2019, SMIS code 125125.
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Tache, I.A. (2021). Estimation of Blood Velocity from Cardiac Angiography. In: Jarm, T., Cvetkoska, A., Mahnič-Kalamiza, S., Miklavcic, D. (eds) 8th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference. EMBEC 2020. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64610-3_56
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