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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining and calculating steps comprise:
electronically obtaining a plurality of parallel slices of a common (the same) single image plane to provide the obtained MRI images, each slice providing a series of images over a cardiac cycle obtained during a respective single heartbeat while the human patient is free-breathing;
and for each slice of the parallel slices,

electronically calculating a strain value for each of a plurality of segments; and
for each segment of the plurality of segments,

electronically 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, wherein the resultant strain value for that segment is the strain measurement for a corresponding segment used to calculate the risk score.