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Blood Flow Imaging with Ultrafast Doppler
Published on: October 14, 2020
Exploring the use of proper orthogonal decomposition for enhancing blood flow images via computational fluid dynamics
R H P McGregor1, D Szczerba, M von Siebenthal
1Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, ETH, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Obtaining high quality patient-specific flow velocity information is not an easy task. Available clinical data are usually poorly resolved and contain a significant amount of noise. We propose a novel approach to integrate computational fluid dynamics with measurement data to overcome this difficulty. By performing a proper orthogonal decomposition of simulated blood flow patterns for a given vascular location with various anatomical configurations it is possible to obtain a basis model for flow reconstruction. This is used to interpolate imaging data intelligently without having to perform a full flow simulation for each individual patient. This work focuses on assessing the feasibility of such a method.
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