Patent ID: 8103073
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: A61B,G01R,G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A cardiotoxicity or cardiac injury evaluation signal processor circuit, comprising: a cardiac image generator module configured to generate at least one 3-D image of a population of intensity voxels of a patient's heart in communication with a display; and a histogram module in communication with the cardiac image generator module configured to generate a plurality of histograms of voxel intensity data associated with regions of interest in the heart, wherein the circuit is configured to selectively present a 2-D compartmental model of the heart on the display, the 2-D compartmental model having a plurality of adjacent compartments in at least two of the following: apical, mid and basal short axis slices of the heart, wherein voxel data from the histograms are used to populate the compartments of the model with measures of voxel intensity to provide visual data to allow a clinician to identify cell injury, cell death, fibrosis, cardiac injury and/or predict a likelihood of a negative cardiac event.