Generation of multiple angels curved planar reformation
Yue Du, Shuai Li, Qian Du · 2016
Curved planar reformation (CPR) is an effective way to inspect and monitor the inner information of vessel. Compared to three-dimensional (3D) vessel visualization technologies, it can diagnose vascular diseases such as stenosis, calcification and atherosclerotic plaque, the extensions of this technique help improve medical image analysis and surgical consultation. As traditional straightened CPR method suffers existing problems such as single vision, omissions and false positive calcification regional problems, we present a novel method for multiple angels straightened CPR of heart data in this paper, the images will be obtained in two dimensions via a transformation from volume data along the center line (3D). Our method presents a more intuitive view of internal information of vessel at different angels, the changes in blood vessel radius and the calcification region can be observed, which reduces the rate of misdiagnosis.