Patent ID: 8903472

Claim:
A method for diagnosing vascular disease, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a vessel image showing a vasculature of a vessel having a vascular disease, the vasculature of the vessel including at least part of a biological tree having a stem and a crown; identifying at least two measurements from the vessel image, the measurements relating to at least two parameters selected from the group consisting of a vessel volume, a vessel length, a vessel diameter, a flow rate of a stem, and crown resistance; calculating at least two cumulative measurements corresponding to the selected at least two parameters, the at least two cumulative measurements selected from the group consisting of a volume of the crown corresponding to the vessel volume parameter, a cumulative vessel length of the crown corresponding to the vessel length parameter, a diameter of a most proximal stem corresponding to the vessel diameter parameter, a flow rate of a most proximal stem corresponding to the flow rate of the stem parameter, and a resistance of the biological tree corresponding to the crown resistance parameter; calculating a relationship between the at least two parameters from the at least two measurements and the at least two cumulative measurements to generate one or more vasculature data points using a processor operably connected to a storage medium having the at least two measurements stored thereon; and comparing the one or more vasculature data points to data relative to a model vasculature to determine the extent of vascular disease.