3-D imaging of coronary vasculature using C-arm CTCoronary heart disease is the most common cause of death in
the developed world.
Its main cause is obstruction of the coronary arteries.
Today, the evaluation of
these stenoses in the interventional lab is performed using
C-arm fluoroscopy.A full 3-D visualisation can improve the clinical
assessment. Unfortunately, 3-D
reconstruction of the coronary tree from C-arm data is a
mathematically
ill-posed problem. Due to the long acquisition time of ca. 5
seconds, heart
motion blurs the resulting image. There is previous work on
the estimation of
and compensation for coronary vessel movement, achieving a
good visualisation of
the coronary morphology. However, heart motion estimation is
only approximate,
resulting in e.g. uncertainties in the quantitative
determination of vessel
diameters. The research goal in this project is the optimisation of the
3-D reconstruction
of coronary vasculature towards a quantitative
representation. The following
aspects are considered:
generation
motion estimation
| Project manager: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger
Project participants: Dr.-Ing. Chris Schwemmer, Dr. rer. nat. Günter Lauritsch, Dr.-Ing. Christopher Rohkohl
Keywords: Motion compensation; dynamic 3-D reconstruction; cardiac imaging; C-arm CT
Duration: 1.11.2010 - 31.10.2013
Sponsored by: Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector
Contact: Schwemmer, Chris E-Mail: chris.schwemmer@cs.fau.de
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Schwemmer, Chris ; Rohkohl, Christopher ; Lauritsch, Günter ; Müller, Kerstin ; : Residual Motion Compensation in ECG-Gated Cardiac Vasculature Reconstruction. In: Noo, Frederic (Ed.) : Proceedings of the second international conference on image formation in x-ray computed tomography (Second international conference on image formation in x-ray computed tomography Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 24-27.06.2012). 2012, pp 259-262. | Schwemmer, Chris ; Rohkohl, Christopher ; Lauritsch, Günter ; Müller, Kerstin ; : Opening Windows - Increasing Window Size in Motion-Compensated ECG-gated Cardiac Vasculature Reconstruction. In: Leahy, Richard ; Qi, Jinyi (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 12th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Fully3D) Lake Tahoe, CA, USA 16.-21.06.2013). 2013, pp 50-53. | Schwemmer, Chris ; Rohkohl, Christopher ; Lauritsch, Günter ; Müller, Kerstin ; : Residual Motion Compensation in ECG-Gated Interventional Cardiac Vasculature Reconstruction. In: Physics in Medicine and Biology 58 (2013), No. 11, pp 3717-3737 [doi>10.1088/0031-9155/58/11/3717] |
Institution: Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition)
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