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Automatic optimum phase point selection based on centerline consistency for 3D rotational coronary angiography

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Abstract

Objective

The quality of three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of the coronary arteries from rotational coronary angiography depends on the selected phase point. Inconsistencies in the projection data, due to heart motion, degrade the image quality. Here, a method for the automatic selection of the optimum phase points for reconstruction is presented.

Methods

The method aims at determining heart phases with minimum inconsistency of the motion state in the selected projection data. This is achieved by calculating an error measure which describes the inconsistency of the vessel centerline geometry in three dimensions for all cardiac phases. The phases with minimum inconsistency are then selected as optimum reconstruction phases. The method’s feasibility was tested on 22 clinical cases. One late-diastolic and one end-systolic optimum phase were determined automatically for each case. For comparison, three observers visually determined the optimum phases.

Results

Overall, 82% of the 44 automatically determined phases delivered optimum image quality, only 5% showed considerably lower quality than the visually determined optimum phase. For all 22 cases at least one of the two automatically determined phases yielded optimum quality.

Conclusion

In a first test the method proved to robustly determine optimum reconstruction phase points.

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  1. Sector Medical Imaging Systems, Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

    Eberhard Hansis, Dirk Schäfer & Michael Grass

  2. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Eberhard Hansis & Olaf Dössel

  3. Röntgenstrasse 24-26, 22335, Hamburg, Germany

    Eberhard Hansis

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Hansis, E., Schäfer, D., Dössel, O. et al. Automatic optimum phase point selection based on centerline consistency for 3D rotational coronary angiography. Int J CARS 3, 355–361 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-008-0233-6

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