143 results about "Coronary vessel" patented technology

A method, and related tools for performing the method, of delivering a stent or other like device to the heart to connect the left ventricle to the coronary artery to thereby supply blood directly from the ventricle to the coronary artery may be used to bypass a total or partial occlusion of a coronary artery. The method may include placing a guide device and a dilation device through an anterior wall and a posterior wall of the coronary vessel and through a heart wall between the heart chamber and the coronary vessel. The dilation device may be used to form a passageway in the heart wall at a location defined by the guide device. The method may then include placing a stent within the passageway.

Method and apparatus for detecting and analyzing heart mechanical activity at a region of interest of a patient's heart are provided. The method comprises acquiring a time sequence of 2-dimensional X-ray images of a region of interest over at least part of a cardiac cycle; detecting coronary vessels in the X-ray images; tracking the coronary vessels through the sequence of images to identify movements of the coronary vessels; and analyzing the movements of the coronary vessels to quantify at least one parameter characterizing heart wall motion in the region of interest.

A method for segmenting coronary vessels in digitized cardiac images includes providing a digitized cardiac image, providing a seed point in the image, selecting a volume-of-interest about the seed point, performing a local segmentation in the volume-of-interest, including initializing a connected component with the seed point and a threshold intensity value to the intensity of the seed point, adding a point to the connected component if the point is adjacent to the connected component and if the intensity of the point is greater than or equal to the threshold value, lowering the threshold intensity value, and computing an attribute value of the connected component, wherein if a discontinuity in the attribute value is detected, the local segmentation is terminated, wherein a local segmentation mask of a vessel is obtained.

Guidewire for catheters which can be inserted into cavities, preferably coronary vessels of humans or animals, said guidewire being provided with electromagnetic receive or transmit locate to position its position in conjunction with corresponding external electromagnetic transmit or receive antennas, as well as with signal lines guiding the processing unit controlling the transmit antennas or transmit coils.

A blood flow path is formed from a heart chamber to a coronary vessel on an exterior surface of a heart wall. A hollow conduit has a vessel portion and a myocardial portion. The vessel portion has an open leading end sized to be inserted into the coronary vessel. The myocardial portion has an open leading end and the myocardium portion is sized to extend through a thickness of the heart wall. The myocardial portion is placed in the heart wall with the open leading end of the myocardial portion protruding into the heart chamber. Blood flow through the conduit from the heart chamber is at least partially blocked. The leading end of the vessel portion is placed in the coronary vessel. Blood flow through the conduit from the heart chamber and into the vessel is then opened.

Devices and methods for delivering conduits into the wall of a patient's heart to communicate a coronary vessel with a heart chamber. The devices are passed through the coronary vessel and the heart wall to place the conduit and establish a blood flow path between the vessel and the heart chamber. Additional devices and methods are provided for removing tissue from a coronary vessel or the heart wall to establish a flow path between the coronary vessel in communication with the heart chamber.

Devices and methods utilized in performing transmyocardial coronary bypass include retractors used to engage and support myocardial tissue, and mechanisms for supporting coronary vessels so as to allow precise entry into a vessel lumen. In addition, various conduits are provided having a configuration that permits their positioning in a heart wall to place a coronary vessel in communication with a heart chamber.

The invention discloses a high-precision matching model-based method for calculating coronary artery parameters. According to the method, firstly, the angiography imaging means and the intravascular imaging means of a coronary vessel part are acquired. After that, an angiography image and an intravascular image are matched to form a high-precision matching model. The blood flow amount, the blood fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) and the microcirculation resistance index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR) of coronary vessels are calculated on the basis of the high-precision matching model. According to the method for calculating the coronary parameter blood flow, the blood flow reserve score and the microcirculation resistance index, the high-precision matching model of images is acquired through two ways, namely the angiography imaging means and the intravascular imaging means. The calculation result of the method is more accurate than the image of either the angiography imaging means orthe intravascular imaging means alone, so that the method is high in practicability.

The invention, which is applicable to the field of the computer technology, provides a three-dimensional reconstruction method and device for coronary vessels, equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises: carrying out pretreatment and extraction of a blood vessel edge contour and two-dimensional guide wires on a coronary artery angiography (CAG) image and carrying out inner and outer membrane segmentation on an IVUS image; carrying out translation of two-dimensional guide wires in the CAG image on a first radiography plane and a second radiography plane to a same starting point, constructing a vertical intersecting surface, and setting intersecting lines as three-dimensional guide wired; arranging each frame of IVUS image on the three-dimensional guide wire at equal interval and rotating the each frame of IVUS image to be perpendicular to a tangent vector at a corresponding position; and rotating the IVUS image on the tangent vector vertical plane and carrying out back projection to the CAG image, obtaining distances between the three-dimensional guide wires based on the back projection and the blood vessel edge contour, determining an optimal orientation angle, and then rebuilding a blood vessel surface. Therefore, the external morphological structure of the blood vessel and the inner cavity lesion information are checked simultaneously; and the efficiency and accuracy of three-dimensional reconstruction of the coronary vessel are improved.

A method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of tissue. In particular, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for temporarily immobilizing a local area of heart tissue to thereby permit surgery on a coronary vessel in that area without significant deterioration of the pumping function of the beating heart. The local area of heart tissue is immobilized to a degree sufficient to permit minimally invasive or micro-surgery on that area of the heart. The present invention features a suction device to accomplish the immobilization. The suction device is coupled to a source of negative pressure. The suction device has a series of suction ports on one surface. Suction through the device causes suction to be maintained at the ports. The device further is shaped to conform to the surface of the heart. Thus, when the device is placed on the surface of the heart and suction is created, the suction through the ports engages the surface of the heart. The suction device is further fixed or immobilized to a stationary object, such as an operating table or a sternal or rib retractor. Thus, the local area of the heart near the suction device is temporarily fixed or immobilized relative to the stationary object while suction is maintained. In such a fashion, the coronary artery may be immobilized even though the heart itself is still beating so that a bypass graft may be performed. In addition the suction device may be used in either a conventional, open-chest environment or in a minimally-invasive environment, e.g. endoscopic.