EBC - ON DEMAND
European Bifurcation Club 2012 – EBC 2012 – Castelldefels, Spain
Parallel Session 2 – OCT imaging session
Fully automatic 3D OCT during bifurcation PCI
Author: G J Ughi, Cardiovascular Diseases University Hospitals Leuven & Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
INTRODUCTION
- Potential of 3D IV-OCT in bifurcation PCI
- assessment of jailed side branches
- rewiring of a side-branch ostium
- 3D IV-OCT pitfall
- each stent strut needs to be manually identified and segmented
- time-consuming and labor intensive procedure: >3h per pullback
- Clinical needs:
- recent studies1,2 stated that: “the potential of 3D OCT is real as a complimentary tool to 2D IV-OCT, if available as ‘push-on-a-button’ at the time of the data acquisition1”
- Aim
- develop a method for a rapid and fully-automatic 3D visualization of IV-OCT pullbacks
CONCLUSION
- On-line use of 3D IV- OCT is feasible through the ‘push on a button’
- We developed a method for a fully-automatic and rapid visualization of 3D IV- OCT data
- Computational time ~1 min
- Proposed method is suitable for on-line use potentially allowing optimization of (bifurcation) PCI procedures