Creation of standard Bull's Eye Map with coronary territory borderlines generated by coronary CT angiography

• Project/Area Number: 20591447
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Radiation science
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: MOTIZUKI Teruhito Ehime University, 大学院・医学系研究科, 教授 (80145094)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HIGASHINO Hirosi 愛媛大学, 医学部附属病院, 講師 (00398041) ; KIKUCHI Kenichi 愛媛大学, 医学部附属病院, 講師 (50304605)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: ブルズアイマップ (Bull's Eye Map) / 冠動脈支配領域 / 冠動脈CTアンギオグラフィ / ブルズアイ表示 / CT / SPECT / 冠動脈 / 心筋血流シンチグラフィ / イメージフュージョン / 心筋 / ブルズアイマップ / 心臓CT

Research Abstract

Myocardial perfusion of the whole heart obtained by SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) can be expressed using a single disc, i.e., Bull's Eye Map. When myocardial hypo-perfusion area is depicted, clinicians estimate the responsible coronary artery visually using the Bull's Eye Map. Recently, multi-slice CT has become able to offer clear coronary artery imaging. And the coronary tree can be superimposed into the Bull's Eye Map. Using this superimpose technique in 20 patients, we generated the borderlines of the coronary arteries (LAD : left anterior descending artery, LCX : left circumflex artery, and RCA : right coronary artery. Using the Bull's eye map with the borderlines of the coronary territories, responsible coronary arteries will be estimated more accurately.

Research Products

• [Presentation] 3D Image Fusion of Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography (CCTA) and single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI). (2010)
  • Author(s): Hiroshi Higashino, Teruhito Kido, Akira Kurata, Michinobu Nagao, Teruhito Mochizuki, Yasuaki Goko, Toru Higaki.
  • Organizer: The 4th Congress of Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging. TICC
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei, Taiwan
• [Presentation] The advantage of educational Bull's-eye map diagnosed by nuclear experts. (2010)
  • Author(s): Hiroshi Higashino, Kouki Watanabe, Hideo Kawakami, Takanori Hiroshi Higashino, Kouki Watanabe, Hideo Kawakami, Takanori Kikuchi, Teruhito Mochizuki, Teruhito Kido, Michinobu Nagao, Akira Kurata.
  • Organizer: Society of Nuclear Medicine 57th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Salt Palace Convention Center. Salt Lake City, Utah USA
• [Presentation] 3D Image fusion of cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) and single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI). (2010)
  • Author(s): Hiroshi Higashino, Teruhito Kido, Kouki Watanabe, Teruhito Mochizuki, Toru Higaki, Yasuaki Goko, Michinobu Nagao, Akira Kurata, Kouhei Hosokawa, Noriyuki Kido.
  • Organizer: Society of Nuclear Medicine 57th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Salt Palace Convention Center. Salt Lake City, Utah USA
• [Presentation] 3D Image Fusion of Cardiac Computed Tomographic Angiography (CCTA) and single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI). The 4th Congress of Asian Society of Cardiovas cular Imaging. TICC (2010. 3, Taipei) (2010)
  • Author(s): Hiroshi Higashino, Teruhito Kido, Akira Kurata, Michinobu Nagao, Teruhito Mochizuki, Yasuaki Goko, Toru Higaki.
  • Organizer: Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Place of Presentation: 台北(台湾)
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