Reconstruction of coronary arteries from X-ray angiography: A review

S Çimen, A Gooya, M Grass, AF Frangi - Medical image analysis, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite continuous progress in X-ray angiography systems, X-ray coronary angiography is
fundamentally limited by its 2D representation of moving coronary arterial trees, which can …

A coronary artery segmentation method based on multiscale analysis and region growing

A Kerkeni, A Benabdallah, A Manzanera… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Accurate coronary artery segmentation is a fundamental step in various medical imaging
applications such as stenosis detection, 3D reconstruction and cardiac dynamics assessing …

Automated measurement system and method for coronary artery disease scoring

G Lavi, U Merhav - US Patent 9,943,233, 2018 - Google Patents
Automated image analysis used in vascular disease characterization. Coronary vasculature
in particular is automatically characterized in some embodiments for lesion complexity and …

Measurement of meningeal blood vessel diameter in vivo with a plug-in for ImageJ

MJM Fischer, S Uchida, K Messlinger - Microvascular research, 2010 - Elsevier
Changes in blood vessel diameter can be measured manually, but this is time-consuming
and often impractical. For automatic measurement commercial solutions are available, but …

3D reconstruction of coronary arteries from 2D angiographic projections using non-uniform rational basis splines (NURBS) for accurate modelling of coronary …

F Galassi, M Alkhalil, R Lee, P Martindale… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Objective Assessment of coronary stenosis severity is crucial in clinical practice. This study
proposes a novel method to generate 3D models of stenotic coronary arteries, directly from …

Systems and methods for image-based object modeling using multiple image acquisitions or reconstructions

LJ Grady, M Schaap - US Patent 9,378,580, 2016 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are disclosed for integrating imaging data from multiple
sources to create a single, accurate model of a patient's anatomy. One method includes …

3-D reconstruction of the coronary artery tree from multiple views of a rotational X-ray angiography

R Liao, D Luc, Y Sun, K Kirchberg - The international journal of …, 2010 - Springer
To present an efficient and robust method for 3-D reconstruction of the coronary artery tree
from multiple ECG-gated views of an X-ray angiography. 2-D coronary artery centerlines are …

Three-dimensional reconstruction and NURBS-based structured meshing of coronary arteries from the conventional X-ray angiography projection images

AM Vukicevic, S Çimen, N Jagic, G Jovicic, AF Frangi… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Despite its two-dimensional nature, X-ray angiography (XRA) has served as the gold
standard imaging technique in the interventional cardiology for over five decades …

Simulation of cardiac motion on non-Newtonian, pulsating flow development in the human left anterior descending coronary artery

A Theodorakakos, M Gavaises… - Physics in medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This study aimed at investigating the effect of myocardial motion on pulsating blood flow
distribution of the left anterior descending coronary artery in the presence of atheromatous …

Vortex formation and recirculation zones in left anterior descending artery stenoses: computational fluid dynamics analysis

DG Katritsis, A Theodorakakos, I Pantos… - Physics in Medicine …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Flow patterns may affect the potential of thrombus formation following plaque rupture.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) were employed to assess hemodynamic conditions …