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Step 1 - Load medical image: Use the DICOM plug-in to load the patient's medical image. This plug-in allows to load different image modalities: MRI, CT, 3D ultrasound, SPECT. |
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Step 2 - Cardiac segmentation: The heart geometry can be extracted using automatic and semi-automatic segmentation techniques. Manual correction tools can be used to correct the geometry if the result of segmentation is not accurate enough. |
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Step 3 - Cardiac quantification: The cardiac quantification algorithms allow to extract quantitative information that characterize the heart shape.Â
Local and/or global information like volume , wall thickness, stress and strain, can be visualized both as graphs/numerical values or as colormap information on top of the shape model, and is computed using 17 segments bull’s eye plot subdivision.
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Step 4 - Patient specific modelling: these tools allow to generate the finite-element meshes required for the simulations and build additional structures such as fiber orientation and the Purkinje system.
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Step 5 - Therapy planning: Placement of pacemaker leads can be simulated for CRT planning and the result of electromechanical simulations can be visualized.
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