Tracking heart surface features to determine myocardial contrast agent enrichment

Autor: Sprenger J., Petersen J., Neumann N., Reichenspurner H., Russ D., Detter C., Schlaefer A.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Zdroj: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 53-57 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2364-5504
DOI: 10.1515/cdbme-2021-1012
Popis: Fluorescent cardiac imaging can be applied for intraoperative quality control after a coronary bypass grafting surgery to ensure the myocardial perfusion by evaluating the increasing contrast agent enrichment in the heart. The motion due to the beating heart impedes the interpretation of the contrast agent enrichment in the vessels and leads to noisy enrichment curves. We propose tracking of the heart surface features to compensate for the motion of the beating heart and thereby improve the analysis of the contrast agent enrichment. Furthermore, we propose a vessel segmentation pipeline for a local evaluation of contrast agent enrichment directly in the vessels.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals