title: A simple framework to generate 3D patient-specific model of coronary artery bifurcation from single-plane angiographic images.
abstract: Although computer-based simulations, such as structural finite element analysis, have proven their usefulness to support procedural planning of coronary stenting, the link between the clinical practice and these engineering techniques is still limited to research test-cases. A key point to further promote such an interaction is to generate in a fast and effective manner the computational grids from the medical images. Hence, the present study proposes a simple framework to generate 3D meshes of coronary bifurcations from a pair of planar angiographic images obtained by X-ray angiography, which is the gold standard technique for the diagnosis of coronary artery stenosis.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy; CESNA - Centro di Simulazione Numerica Avanzata, Pavia, Italy; IUSS - Istituto Universitario degli Studi Superiori di Pavia, Piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Ferdinando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Auricchio
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Conti
authors.affiliation: IUSS - Istituto Universitario degli Studi Superiori di Pavia, Piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Electronic address: carolina.ferrazzano@unipv.it.
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferrazzano
authors.affiliation: UOC Cardiologia, Ospedale Sant'Eugenio, Piazzale dell'Umanesimo 10, 00144 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Sgueglia
mesh_terms: D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular
keywords: 3D reconstruction; Bifurcation coronary arteries; Finite element analysis; Image processing; Mesh; X-ray coronary angiography