18828299. DETERMINING A LENGTH OF A STENT (Siemens Healthineers AG)
DETERMINING A LENGTH OF A STENT
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Marcus Pfister of Bubenreuth DE
DETERMINING A LENGTH OF A STENT
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18828299 titled 'DETERMINING A LENGTH OF A STENT
Original Abstract Submitted
The length of a stent for a branched vessel may be determined without a contrast agent if possible. To this end, a method includes: acquiring a projection recording of the vessel into which an instrument has been introduced; determining the instrument in the projection recording; estimating a 3D reconstruction of the determined instrument from the projection recording in order to obtain a virtual 3D instrument; establishing a start point and an end point on the virtual 3D instrument with reference to an overlay of the virtual 3D instrument and the projection recording; and automatically determining a distance between the start point and the end point along the virtual 3D instrument as the length for the stent.