At the congress of the European Societey of Cardiology (ESC) 2010, Siemens will present new image processing software that helps cardiologists and cardiac surgeons perform transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI): Syngo Aortic ValveGuide automatically reconstructs a 3D representation of the aortic root from CT-like cross-sectional images acquired with the angiography system. The software selects anatomical landmarks as the coronary ostia, for instance, and overlays the 3D image with two-dimensional images acquired during live fluoroscopy.

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