File loader

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- Full support for DICOM files.
- Can work as a DICOM viewer.
- Connects to all DICOM compliant PACS servers.
- Show thumbnails of folders to easily find images.
- Tested on Siemens, Philips, GE, and Bruker.
- Internal file format that can keep multiple image stacks and
all segmentation and measurements.
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Automated LV segmentation

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- Truly 3D+T segmentation.
- Very fast (takes less than 20s for 12 slice and 30 time frames
on a fast PC).
- Ease of manual interaction.
- Robust and accurate results.
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Manual delineation of the RV
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- Ease of manual interaction.
- End diastolic/systolic volume
- Stroke volume
- Ejection fraction
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General object segmentation

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- Ultrafast levelset algorithm.
- Easy manual interaction.
- Logical manipulation of sub-objects (and, or, xor, not, etc).
- Smooth of contours.
- Export to STL files (accepted by rapid prototyping devices or
meshing software).
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Global LV function
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- Myocardial mass.
- Endsystolic volume.
- Enddiastolic volume.
- Stroke volume.
- Cardiac output.
- Ejection fraction.
- Peak ejection rate.
- Peak filling rate.
- Volume curve.
- Volume loop.
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Regional LV function

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- Radial contraction/expansion velocity.
- Regional wall thickness.
- Regional wall thickening.
- Regional fractional thickening.
- Possibility to export regional function to Clipboard/Excel.
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Measurements
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- Place and annotate measurements.
- Export coordinates and measurements to Clipboard/Excel.
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Viability
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- Functionality to automatically delineate infarcted regions.
- Tools for manual delineation or edit automatic delineation.
- Automated calculation of scar percentage, and transmurality.
- Possibility to export results to Excel.
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Flow
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- Possibility to have fixed size ROI's.
- Flow curves.
- Velocity curves.
- Area curves.
- Forward/backward volume analysis.
- Possibility to export curves to Excel.
- 3D visualization of flow profiles.
- Automatic eddy current compensation.
- Automatic and manual phase unwrapping.
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ROI analysis
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- Unlimited number of ROI's.
- ROI's can be freely colored, and labelled.
- Analysis of signal intensity, standard deviation and size over
time.
- Automatic placement of ROI's inside the myocardium.
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Stress
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- Possibility to have two, four or more image stacks playing with
exactly the same speed (even if there are different number of
frames).
- Simultaneous quantitative regional function analysis of several
image stacks.
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| Patient report generator |
- Feature to automatically compile all measurements for one patient
into a user friendly printable patient report sheet.
- Anatomical images.
- Viability information.
- Patient details.
- Global LV parameters.
- Regional LV parameters.
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| Exporting capabilities |
- Export images as .jpg, .bmp, .png format..
- Export movies as .avi or a sequence of .png files useful for
Microsoft Power-Point presentations.
- Save image stacks and results to a single file format.
- Save/export segmentation.
- Direct exporting possibilities for all results directly to Microsoft
Excel.
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| Interfacing capabilities |
- Possible to write own plug-ins in Matlab (requires Premium Research
Site License, or Commercial license).
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Visualization


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- View multiple image stacks at the same time.
- View intersections of image planes.
- Possible to adjust brightness and contrast of each image stack.
- 14 bit depth colormap.
- 3D visualization of left ventricle with shortaxis and long axis
slices.
- Bulls eye plots of most parameters.
- M-mode and montage views of image stacks.
- View mode for flow analysis with magnitude image and phase image.
- Surface rendering.
- Soon a volume render module will be released.
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| Other functionality |
- Time resolved MPR (Multiple planar reconstruction) functionality.
- Utilities to sort, and anonymize DICOM-files.
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