FIG. 5.

An example of vessel straightening by our implementation of the curved planar reformation method. (a) 3D volume rendering of the heart with the NCP location identified by the cyan arrow (b) volume rendering of the straightened coronary artery segment corresponding to the vessel indicated by the white arrow in (a). The NCP (cyan arrow) caused positive remodeling of the vessel wall; (c) cross sectional images of the NCP from up to down in the reformatted volume with the NCP locations identified by a cyan arrow. The slices were arranged from up to down as: left column: slice 1–5 and right column: slice 6–10 (the slice numbers are relative).