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Title: Vasculature reconstruction from 3D cryomicrotome images
Author: Goyal, Ayush
ISNI:       0000 0004 2746 4497
Awarding Body: University of Oxford
Current Institution: University of Oxford
Date of Award: 2013
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Background: Research in heart disease can be aided by modelling myocardial hemodynamics with knowledge of coronary pressure and vascular resistance measured from the geometry and morphometry of coronary vasculature. This study presents methods to automatically reconstruct accurate detailed coronary vascular anatomical models from high-resolution three-dimensional optical fluorescence cryomicrotomography image volumes for simulating blood flow in coronary arterial trees. Methods: Images of fluorescent cast and bead particles perfused into the same heart comprise the vasculature and microsphere datasets, employed in a novel combined approach to measure vasculature and simulate a flow model on the extracted coronary vascular tree for estimating regional myocardial perfusion. The microspheres are used in two capacities - as fiducial biomarker point sources for measuring the image formation in order to accurately measure the vasculature dataset and as flowing particles for measuring regional myocardial perfusion through the reconstructed vasculature. A new model-based template-matching method of vascular radius estimation is proposed that incorporates a model of the optical fluorescent image formation measured from the microspheres and a template of the vessels’ tubular geometry. Results: The new method reduced the error in vessel radius estimation from 42.9% to 0.6% in a 170 micrometer vessel as compared to the Full-Width Half Maximum method. Whole-organ porcine coronary vascular trees, automatically reconstructed with the proposed method, contained on the order of 92,000+ vessel segments in the range 0.03 – 1.9 mm radius. Discrepancy between the microsphere perfusion measurements and regional flow estimated with a 1-D steady state linear static blood flow simulation on the reconstructed vasculature was modelled with daughter-to-parent area ratio and branching angle as the parameters. Correcting the flow simulation by incorporating this model of disproportionate distribution of microspheres reduced the error from 24% to 7.4% in the estimation of fractional microsphere distribution in oblique branches with angles of 100°-120°.
Supervisor: Smith, Nicolas; Grau, Vicente Sponsor: Wellcome Trust ; Clarendon ; European Commission ; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.581235  DOI: Not available
Keywords: Life Sciences ; Biology ; Biology (medical sciences) ; Biology and other natural sciences (mathematics) ; Biophysics ; Physiology and anatomy ; Anatomy ; Cardiovascular disease ; Vascular research ; Mathematical biology ; Computer science (mathematics) ; Pattern recognition (statistics) ; Cryomicrotome imaging ; three-dimensional (3-D) automatic reconstruction ; vascular extraction ; whole-organ coronary vasculature
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