Patent ID: 8908939

Claim:
A system, comprising: computer memory that stores pre-perfusion image data generated by repeatedly scanning, with a scanner, first vascular tissue of a subject, which feeds vascular tissue of interest of a subject that is upstream from the first vascular tissue, during a pre-perfusion contrast enhanced scan of the first vascular tissue, wherein the pre-perfusion image data does not include the vascular tissue of interest, and perfusion image data of the vascular tissue of interest generated by a perfusion scan of the vascular tissue of interest that is based on an imaging plan and that does include the first vascular tissue; and a computer processor that processes the pre-perfusion image data and determines an amount of time from an administration of a first contrast agent for the pre-perfusion contrast enhanced scan to arrival of the administered contrast agent at the first vascular tissue, creates an imaging plan for a perfusion scan of the vascular tissue of interest based on the amount of time so that the perfusion scan acquires data representing an arrival of an administered second contrast agent at the vascular tissue of interest, and that processes the pre-perfusion image data and the perfusion image data and determines first perfusion information for connecting vascular tissue, which vascularly connects the first vascular tissue and the vascular tissue of interest, based on the pre-perfusion scan image data and the perfusion image data.