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US 12,207,961 · App. 17/587,264 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Method and apparatus for correcting blood flow velocity on the basis of interval time between angiogram images

Inventors: Guangzhi Liu (Suzhou, CN); Zhiyuan Wang (Suzhou, CN); Wei Dai (Suzhou, CN); Lin Chen (Suzhou, CN)
Assignee: SUZHOU RAINMED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
A61B6/481A61B6/504G06T7/0016G06T7/20G06T2207/30104
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Patent No.
US 12,207,961
App. No.
17/587,264
Filed
Jan 28, 2022
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2641
USPC
382/128
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images, comprising: acquiring, in an angiography state, an average blood flow velocity V h from a coronary artery inlet to a distal end of a coronary artery stenosis (S 100 ); acquiring a time difference Δt between start times of two adjacent bolus injections of contrast agent (S 200 ); obtaining a correction coefficient K according to the time difference Δt (S 300 ); obtaining a resting blood flow velocity V j according to the correction coefficient K and the average blood flow velocity V h (S 400 ), as well as an apparatus configured for implementing the above method. The disclosure obtains the resting blood flow velocity V j according to the correction coefficient K and the average blood flow velocity V h .

Claims (31)

1. A method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images, comprising:

acquiring, in an angiography state, an average blood flow velocity V h from a coronary artery inlet to a distal end of a coronary artery stenosis;

acquiring a time difference Δt between start times of two adjacent bolus injections of a contrast agent;

obtaining a correction coefficient K according to the time difference Δt;

obtaining a resting blood flow velocity V j according to the correction coefficient K and the average blood flow velocity V h .

2. The method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 1 , wherein a manner for obtaining a resting blood flow velocity V j according to the correction coefficient K and the average blood flow velocity V h comprises:

obtaining the resting blood flow velocity V j according to the formula V j =V h /K.

3. The method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 1 , wherein a manner for obtaining a correction coefficient K according to the time difference Δt comprises:

if Δt≥30 s, then K=1;

if 20 s≤Δt<30 s, then 1<K≤1.5;

if 10 s<Δt<20 s, then 1.5<K<2.0;

if Δt≤10 s, then K=2.

4. The method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 1 , wherein a manner for acquiring, in an angiography state, an average blood flow velocity V h from a coronary artery inlet to a distal end of a coronary artery stenosis comprises:

acquiring the number of frames of coronary angiogram images contained in a heartbeat cycle region;

V

h

=

L

N

/

fps

wherein, L represents a length of a blood vessel through which a contrast agent flows in the heartbeat cycle region; N represents the number of frames of the coronary angiogram images contained in the heartbeat cycle region; and fps represents the number of frames transmitted per second.

5. The method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 4 , wherein a value range for L is 50-150 mm; or L=100 mm.

6. The method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 1 , wherein a manner for measuring the average blood flow velocity V h comprises:

contrast agent traversal distance algorithm, Stewart-Hamilton algorithm, First-pass distribution analysis method, optical flow method, or fluid continuity method.

7. An apparatus for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images, for using in the method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of angiogram images according to claim 1 , comprising: a first blood flow velocity unit, a time difference unit, a correction coefficient unit and a second blood flow velocity unit; the first blood flow velocity unit being connected to the second blood flow velocity unit, and the correction coefficient unit being connected to the time difference unit and the second blood flow velocity unit, respectively;

the first blood flow velocity unit being configured to acquire, in an angiography state, an average blood flow velocity V h from a coronary artery inlet to a distal end of a coronary artery stenosis;

the time difference unit being configured to acquire a time difference Δt between start times of two adjacent bolus injections of a contrast agent;

the correction coefficient unit being configured to receive the time difference Δt transmitted by the time difference unit to obtain a correction coefficient K;

the second blood flow velocity unit being configured to receive the average blood flow velocity V h in the angiography state sent by the first blood flow velocity unit and the correction coefficient K sent by the correction coefficient unit, and to obtain the resting blood flow velocity V j according to the correction coefficient K and the average blood flow velocity V h .

8. A non-transitory computer storage medium having stored thereon a computer program to be executed by a processor, wherein the method for correcting a resting blood flow velocity on the basis of an interval time between angiogram images according to claim 1 is implemented when the computer program is executed by the processor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2022
From: LIU, GUANGZHI; WANG, ZHIYUAN; DAI, WEI; CHEN, LIN
To: SUZHOU RAINMED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (2)
CN 201910704330.1 · Jul 31, 2019 · national
CN 201911138512.3 · Nov 20, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019120328 · Nov 22, 2019
Related Publication 20220151579A1 · May 19, 2022
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