Patent Document ID: 20150164453
Application ID: 14254521
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of determining an effect of a treatment on coronary plaque vulnerability, the method comprising: acquiring anatomical image data of at least part of a patient's vascular system; performing, using a processor, one or more of image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis on the anatomical image data; predicting, using the processor, a coronary plaque vulnerability defining a risk of rupture of one or more regions of plaque present in the patient's vascular system based on results of one or more of the image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis of the anatomical image data; modifying one or more of the image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis on the anatomical image data based on a proposed treatment; and determining an effect of the treatment on the predicted coronary plaque vulnerability defining the risk of rupture of the one or more regions of plaque, based on the modified one or more of the image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis on the anatomical image.