Image-based morphometric studies of human coronary artery bifurcations with/without coronary artery disease.

Image-based morphometric studies of human coronary artery bifurcations with/without coronary artery disease. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2020 Nov 30;:1-17 Authors: Chen X, Dai J, Lin J, Wu Y, Ouyang J, Huang M, Zhuang J, Fang Y, Wu J Abstract It is of great clinical significance to study the relationship between coronary bifurcation's morphometrical feature change and coronary artery disease (CAD) lesion. The purpose of this study is to determine the morphological changes in patients with CAD lesion when compared with non-CAD subjects and to find indicators that may be used for cardiovascular disease diagnosis. Computed tomography angiography images from Southern Chinese populations were used to reconstruct three-dimensional coronary arterial trees. Murray's law was introduced to assess the level of deviation of the realistic vascular networks from their optimal state. The results showed CAD Left had the highest deviation values of ARR ( 0.2552 ± 0.0071 ) and DERR ( 0.5059 ± 0.0098 ), while non-CAD Right had the lowest values ( ARR : 0.1892 ± 0.0066 and DERR : 0.3733 ± 0.0092 , respectively). Moreover, the slope values of the ratio between D m 3 and D s 3 + D l 3 for non-CAD Left, CAD Left, non-CAD Right, and CAD Right were 0.7428, 0.7004, 0.7628, and 0.7577, respectively. Theoretically, the slope value should equal to 1 when the bifurcation structure is in its optimal state. Therefore, these results indicated th...
Source: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering - Category: Biomedical Engineering Authors: Tags: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin Source Type: research