Flow 2.0 -a flexible, scalable, cross-platform post-processing software for realtime phase contrast sequences

TL;DR

Flow 2.0 is a comprehensive, user-friendly software that streamlines the post-processing of real-time phase contrast data, enabling efficient analysis of respiration's impact on cerebral circulation.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated, scalable software solution with a novel time-domain method for analyzing respiration effects in cerebral circulation from RT-PC data.

Findings

Efficient batch processing of RT-PC data.

Accurate quantification of respiration effects on cerebral fluids.

Robust analysis workflow for clinical and research use.

Abstract

Flow 2.0 is an end-to-end easy-of-use software that allows us to quickly, robustly and accurately perform a batch process real-time phase contrast data and multivariate analysis of the effect of respiration on cerebral fluids circulation. Synopsis (99/100) Real-time phase contrast sequences (RT-PC) have potential value as a scientific and clinical tool in quantifying the effects of respiration on cerebral circulation. To simplify its complicated post-processing process, we developed Flow 2.0 software, which provides a complete post-processing workflow including converting DICOM data, image segmentation, image processing, data extraction, background field correction, antialiasing filter, signal processing and analysis and a novel time-domain method for quantifying the effect of respiration on the cerebral circulation. This end-to-end software allows us to quickly, robustly and accurately perform batch process RT-PC and multivariate analysis of the effects of respiration on cerebral circulation.