Patent ID: 8457710

Claim:
A method for determining information for a diagnosis of pathologic conditions of the anatomical region of the pelvic floor by MRI imaging, the method comprising: acquiring a sequence of MRI images along one or more predetermined section planes or inside a predetermined three-dimensional area, which planes intersect or which three-dimensional area contains at least a part of the pelvic floor; said image sequence being acquired for a time interval coinciding with or comprising at least a part of the length of the physiological process evacuating natural solids or liquids carried out on the basis both of a natural stimulation and an induced stimulation or during a simulation of physiological processes evacuating solids or liquids by introducing foreign bodies or substances simulating natural products; generating a film of the cinematographic type by using as individual frames one or more images of the sequence; and displaying the film for visually verifying the dynamic-morphologic behaviour of organs of the pelvic floor; wherein before determining or measuring dimensions or morphologic parameters of the bladder or sphincter, sequence images are subjected to a further reconstructing step by a rendering process; wherein, in combination with the rendering process, sequence images are subjected to a further processing process such as a morphing or a smoothing process; and wherein there is provided a step for verifying and correcting results of the rendering process wherein shapes or dimensions or values of dynamic deformation parameters determined by acquired images of the body under examination are compared with shapes or dimensions or values of dynamic deformation parameters determined by identical processes acquiring MRI images and processing rendering for a certain number of known clinical cases or determined on the basis of average typical values or typical value ranges provided for said shapes or dimensions or values of dynamic deformation parameters of reproduced objects and in particular of tissues or organs or structures or part thereof that are present in the region of the body under examination, a maximum differentiation threshold being established as regards increase or decrease of shapes or dimensions or values of dynamic deformation parameters determined by acquired images of the body under examination from corresponding ones relevant to known clinical cases or the ones typical for organs or tissues or structures or part thereof present in the region of the body under examination, and, when said maximum differentiation threshold is overcome, at least an error warning and a request for manually repeating the segmentation or rendering or morphing or smoothing or MRI image acquisition process being generated, or the segmentation or rendering or morphing or smoothing process being automatically repeated or a new MRI image acquisition being carried out.