A task-driven cerebral angiographic imaging based on CT perfusion

Cheng Wang, Siqi Chen, Donghua Mi · 2024

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Cheng Wang, Siqi Chen, and Donghua Mi build better vessel pictures for stroke care out of perfusion scans hospitals already take, in a paper whose text dates it to 2023. Ordinary CT angiography often shows brain vessels patchily, blurring the line between arteries and veins and missing diseased segments. Perfusion scanning, which watches contrast wash through the brain over time, holds richer information. Their method mines those time series to draw cleaner vessel maps.

From one perfusion scan, the technique produces artery and vein images, centreline maps of key vessels, and straightened views that unroll a chosen vessel for inspection. The team tested it on bleeding strokes and blocked-artery strokes, comparing its images with standard ones for quality and vessel visibility. Virtual vessel models were also built. The payoff is more diagnostic value squeezed from a scan stroke patients already receive.

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CREATORCheng Wang, Siqi Chen, Donghua Mi
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE19 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10875991

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