Visualization of Myocardial Perfusion Derived from Coronary Anatomy

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• Publication Type: Journal Paper with Conference Talk
• Date (from): 19.10.2008
• Date (to): 24.10.2008
• Event: IEEE Visualization 2008
• ISSN: 1077-2626
• Lecturer: Maurice Termeer
• Location: Columbus, USA
• Keywords: myocardial perfusion, coronary artery territories, cardiac visualization

@article\{termeer-2008-vis,
  title =      "Visualization of Myocardial Perfusion Derived from Coronary
               Anatomy",
  author =     "Maurice Termeer and Javier Oliv{\'a}n Besc{\'o}s and
               Marcel Breeuwer and Anna Vilanova and Frans Gerritsen and
               Meister Eduard Gr{\"o}ller and Eike Nagel",
  year =       "2008",
  abstract =   "Visually assessing the effect of the coronary artery anatomy
               on the perfusion of the heart muscle in patients with
               coronary artery disease remains a challenging task. We
               explore the feasibility of visualizing this effect on
               perfusion using a numerical approach. We perform a
               computational simulation of the way blood is perfused
               throughout the myocardium purely based on information from a
               three-dimensional anatomical tomographic scan. The results
               are subsequently visualized using both three-dimensional
               visualizations and bull's eye plots, partially inspired by
               approaches currently common in medical practice. Our
               approach results in a comprehensive visualization of the
               coronary anatomy that compares well to visualizations
               commonly used for other scanning technologies. We
               demonstrate techniques giving detailed insight in blood
               supply, coronary territories and feeding coronary arteries
               of a selected region. We demonstrate the advantages of our
               approach through visualizations that show information which
               commonly cannot be directly observed in scanning data, such
               as a separate visualization of the supply from each coronary
               artery. We thus show that the results of a computational
               simulation can be effectively visualized and facilitate
               visually correlating these results to for example perfusion
               data. ",
  pages =      "1595--1602",
  month =      oct,
  number =     "6",
  event =      "IEEE Visualization 2008",
  issn =       "1077-2626",
  journal =    "TVCG",
  volume =     "14",
  location =   "Columbus, USA",
  keywords =   "myocardial perfusion, coronary artery territories, cardiac
               visualization",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/termeer-2008-vis/",
}