Patent ID: 11872019
Assignee: MYOCARDIAL SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. The system of claim 16, wherein the MRI workstation and/or the remote module in communication with the MRI workstation is configured with at least one processor and/or server configured to obtain the MM images of the heart and determine strain values by:
obtaining a plurality of parallel slices of a common (the same) single image plane to provide the obtained MRI images, each of the parallel slices providing a series of images over a cardiac cycle that are obtained over a respective single heartbeat while the human patient is free-breathing;
and for each slice of the parallel slices,
calculating a strain value for each of a plurality of segments; and
for each segment of the plurality of segments, either:
(i) combining one or more strain measurements from at least two corresponding segments of different slices of the plurality of slices to thereby generate a composite strain value for each segment, or (ii) selecting a peak strain value from one of the calculated strain values of the plurality of slices as a resultant strain value for that segment whereby either the composite strain value or the resultant strain value is used for a corresponding segment in the calculation of the risk score.