Patent ID: 8050737

Claim:
A method for examination and evaluation of a human or animal body in relation to a blood flow in a pulmonary artery (PA), comprising steps of: (a) recording measurement data, from which at least a part of the blood flow in the pulmonary artery (PA) is re-constructed at least two-dimensionally in a plane spanned by a longitudinal axis of the pulmonary artery (PA) and by an anterior-posterior direction, including a plurality of diastolic points in time in a course of a heart cycle, after a closure of a pulmonary valve (PV), (b) at least semi-automatically analyzing the measurement data to identify at how many diastolic points, among said plurality of diastolic points in time, an asymmetry exists as to the longitudinal axis of the pulmonary artery (PA) in the anterior-posterior direction; (c) at least semi-automatically determining a measure that characterizes how long after the closure of the pulmonary valve (PV) in a flow behavior of the blood flow of the pulmonary artery said asymmetry exists; and (d) making said measure available as an output.