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Overview
CAAS QVA 3D (3 dimensional Quantitative Vascular Analysis) offers fast and intuitive analysis of peripheral vessels such as the abdominal aorta and the carotid, renal, iliac and femoral arteries. CAAS QVA 3D features single vessel analysis including full automatic calibration, vessel border detection and quantification of severity of stenosis according to its true 3D geometric shape.
Key Product Features:
- Elimination of foreshortening and out-of-plane magnification errors
- Interactive 3D rendered view for assessment of shape
- Full automatic calibration: reconstruction in 3D space allows for an optimal automatic calculation of the pixel size for each position of the artery. This eliminates the need for manual input
- Vessel border detection based on novel algorithms.
- Easy contour edits
- Automatic and user defined reconstruction of the healthy vessel shape according to its true 3D geometric shape
- Quantification of lesion length and percentage stenosis.
Import / Export
CAAS accepts DICOM files with single and multi-frame, monoplane and biplane images.
Images for 3D quantification
For 3D quantification, the DICOM images need to be acquired with a flat-panel detector. The analysis can be based on an image pair acquired with a biplane X-ray system. Using two images of different projections acquired with a monoplane X-ray system is also possible.
The results can be exported as:
- DICOM secondary capture. The image with overlay and analysis report can be saved as DICOM SC. This results in a “what you see is what you get” report.
- DICOM structured report. The calculated results can be saved as DICOM SR. This can be used to generate reports based on the analysis results
- XML. The calculated results can be saved to XML. Pie Medical Imaging provides a dedicated toolkit for transformation of XML files to TXT files.
Key Benefits:
- Digitally saved reports
- Several report formats
- Customizable templates
PACS
CAAS is suitable for standalone use or for low effort integration with DICOM Viewers. The viewer can be either standalone or embedded in a PACS environment which is supplied by third parties. Command line interface For integration with DICOM Viewers, CAAS has a command line interface which is easy to use. Within the DICOM Viewer, code must be developed to call the analysis by issuing a command line. On request, Pie Medical Imaging will provide the information on the available command line strings and how to use them. In the viewer, the user can select images to analyze with CAAS. These images will be sent to CAAS. Additional images can be added by the DICOM Viewer in a later stage.Licencing
The software can be licensed for a single user on a specific workstation or for multiple concurrent users over the institution’s network.
Results
The report pages can be accessed at any time during the analysis. All graphs and tables matching your analysis will be displayed.
Key Results:
- Optimal projection
- Minimum luminal diameter (MLD)
- Reference diameter
- % Diameter stenosis
- Length of the stenotic segment
- Area at MLD
- % Area stenosis at MLD
- Reference area
- Volume stenotic segment
- Plaque area, volume and symmetry
