Patent ID: 8996093
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A non-invasive analysis system, comprising one or more data collecting units and an analysis unit, which analysis unit is adapted to quantify and visualize ventricular rotation pattern of the heart wherein said one or more data collecting units are adapted to register rotational information about the cardiac movement for a number of time points and for a number of levels in the heart throughout the cardiac cycle and said analysis unit is adapted to calculate rotation planes for different levels in the heart over time, and to construct rotation planes from at least two rotation lines originating from the same level in the heart, and wherein each of the rotation lines are created between a pair of points having matching rotation values located in ventricular walls, and to calculate a rotation axis for the rotation plane for each selected level, and said analysis unit further is adapted to create a model of the rotational pattern of the heart, wherein deflection and direction of the rotation axes for the rotation planes at selected levels of the ventricles are quantified and visualized.