Patent ID: 8622910

Claim:
A system for acquiring blood-vessel data, comprising: a data-gathering probe adapted to acquire blood-vessel data related to at least one physiological parameter of a blood vessel; a heart-monitoring device adapted to acquire heartbeat data; a device adapted to move the data-gathering probe continuously through a blood vessel at a substantially constant speed, wherein the data-gathering probe gathers the blood-vessel data while being continuously moved at the substantially constant speed; and a processor in communication with the data-gathering probe and the heart-monitoring device, the processor configured to: obtain the heartbeat data; identify a cyclical portion of the heartbeat data, the cyclical portion of the heartbeat data being substantially common to multiple heartbeats of the heartbeat data; obtain the blood-vessel data related to at least one physiological parameter of the blood vessel only during an interval substantially corresponding to the cyclical portion of the heartbeat data while the data-gathering probe is moved continuously through the blood vessel at the substantially constant speed.