Patent 10140712 was granted and assigned to Lightlab Imaging on November, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In part, the disclosure relates to methods of stent strut detection relative to a side branch region using intravascular data. In one embodiment, detecting stent struts relative to jailed side branches is performed using a scan line-based peak analysis. In one embodiment, false positive determinations relating to stent struts are analyzed using a model strut.