The Beauty of Blood Flow Analysis

This short movie shows the dynamic reconstruction of the blood flow of a healthy human heart. It is based exclusively on real medical data gathered by an MRI scanner. The colored virtual particle traces visualize the blood flow, similar to ink spreading in water. The movements of the particles represent the blood flow of a patient’s heart during a single heartbeat and illustrate the speed and direction of the flow. During particle acceleration, the color changes from blue to orange. Sophisticated volume rendering shows the anatomy of the pumping heart. Scientists from Fraunhofer MEVIS created the movie using MeVisLab, a software package for developing medical image processing assistance systems for physicians.
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