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

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining and calculating steps comprise:
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,
programmatically calculating a strain value for each of a plurality of segments; and
for each segment of the plurality of segments,
programmatically 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, and wherein the composite strain value for each segment is the strain measurement for each corresponding segment used to calculate the risk score.