Patent Document ID: 9922417
Application ID: 14769507
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for producing an evolvable cerebrospinal tissue model of a patient, comprising the steps of: a) receiving at least one set of diffusion imaging input data of cerebrospinal tissue of a patient, said at least one set of input data containing at least directional information with respect to diffusion fiber tracts; b) representing the directional information of the at least one component of cerebrospinal tissue in a pre-selected format and producing therefrom an oriented fiber tract tissue map; and c) producing a cerebrospinal tissue model in which at least one constituent of the cerebrospinal tissue model uses the oriented diffusion fiber tract tissue map such that the cerebrospinal tissue model reflects the directionality of the diffusion fiber tracts so that when the cerebrospinal tissue model is subjected to an influence any evolution of the cerebrospinal tissue model over time incorporates the directionality of the diffusion fiber tracts, and wherein at least one additional constituent of the cerebrospinal tissue model uses the oriented diffusion fiber tract tissue map such that the cerebrospinal tissue model represents any one of elasticity properties of the one or more tissue components, tensile properties of one or more tissue components or pressure properties of one or more tissue components as a geometric model.