SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND PROCESSES FOR AUTOMATED BLOOD FLOW ASSESSMENT OF VASCULATURE
First Claim
1. A system for characterizing aspects of vascular scenarios, comprising:
- an input module;
a database for storing characteristics of various types and conditions of vascular segments, a vascular region of interest and associated environments, properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, and patient-related indicia, or information identifying such;
access to a FSI solver, the FSI solver for accepting an ensemble including at least some of the characteristics, conditions, a description of the vascular region of interest and associated environments, the properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, and the patient-related indicia, or information identifying such from the input module and the database, and using the accepted ensemble to model the region of interest and provide results from modeling the region of interest;
interfaces for transmitting information from the input module and the database to the FSI solver and for receiving the results from the FSI solver; and
a collection of analysis modules, coupled to the interface for receiving results, the collection for comparing various treatment options, allowing before-and-after comparisons of aspects of the region of interest and providing quantitative assessments of parameters of interest describing the region of interest from the results.
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Abstract
A system, apparatus and process for characterizing aspects of vascular scenarios is described, and includes an input module and a database. The system also includes access to a FSI solver. The FSI solver accepts information from the input module and the database, and uses the accepted information to model a vascular site of interest and provide results from modeling the vascular site of interest. The system also includes interfaces for transmitting information from the input module and the database to the FSI solver and for receiving the results from the FSI solver, and an ensemble of analysis modules which is coupled to the interface for receiving results. The ensemble of analysis modules compares various treatment options, allows before-and-after comparisons of aspects of the vascular site of interest and provides quantitative assessments of parameters of interest describing the vascular site of interest.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for characterizing aspects of vascular scenarios, comprising:
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an input module; a database for storing characteristics of various types and conditions of vascular segments, a vascular region of interest and associated environments, properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, and patient-related indicia, or information identifying such; access to a FSI solver, the FSI solver for accepting an ensemble including at least some of the characteristics, conditions, a description of the vascular region of interest and associated environments, the properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, and the patient-related indicia, or information identifying such from the input module and the database, and using the accepted ensemble to model the region of interest and provide results from modeling the region of interest; interfaces for transmitting information from the input module and the database to the FSI solver and for receiving the results from the FSI solver; and a collection of analysis modules, coupled to the interface for receiving results, the collection for comparing various treatment options, allowing before-and-after comparisons of aspects of the region of interest and providing quantitative assessments of parameters of interest describing the region of interest from the results. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A process for characterizing aspects of vascular scenarios, comprising acts of:
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accepting patient indicia via an input module; accessing relevant data records from a database using the indicia, and augmenting those data records, where needed, with stored data from a bank of representative data also stored in the database, to provide information including a description of the vascular scenario and defining a region of interest; sending the information to a FSI solver; receiving, responsive to sending, raw simulation results from the FSI solver; and modifying the raw simulation results using selected items from a collection of analysis modules, the selected items from the collection for comparing various treatment options, allowing before-and-after comparisons of aspects of the region of interest and providing quantitative assessments of parameters of interest describing the region of interest from the results. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computation engine and a memory coupled to a data collection module;
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computer-readable code embodied on a computer-readable medium and configured so that when the computer-readable code is executed by one or more processors associated with the computation engine, the computer-readable code causes the one or more processors to; accept input indicia from the data collection module, the input indicia identifying a particular patient and allowing access to stored records relating to prior measurements and simulations, if any, relative to that patient; determine estimates for quantities not represented in a present measurement from a database storing characteristics of various types and conditions of vascular segments associated with a defined vascular region of interest and associated environments, to determine appropriate properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, in conformance with patient-related indicia, or information identifying such; access a FSI solver, the FSI solver for accepting an ensemble including at least some of the characteristics, conditions, a description of the vascular region of interest and associated environments, the properties of tools associated with treatment of vascular abnormalities, and the patient-related indicia, or information identifying such from the input module and the database, and using the accepted ensemble to model the region of interest and provide results from modeling the region of interest; exchange information between the input module and the database and the FSI solver, including providing results from the FSI solver to a collection of analysis modules; and using the collection of analysis modules, and the results from the FSI solver to; compare benefits and potential drawbacks of various treatment options;
orallow before-and-after comparisons of aspects of the region of interest;
orprovide quantitative assessments of parameters of interest describing the region of interest from the results. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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