Mean radius per branch + plot radius along branch

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Dear all,

I am processing a surface model of the LIMA-LAD bypass in VMTK. I managed to split the domain in separate regions using VMTKBranchExtractor and VMTKBranchClipper, as shown in the figure. For each branch I want to compute its length and its mean radius and I would like to plot the radius along the length of each branch. Using VMTKBranchGeometry I can obtain the length of each branch, but I can’t find how to obtain the radius values for each branch separately.

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Can someone help me with either using VMTK functions or working with VTK PolyData in obtaining the radius for each branch? I am developing my workflow in Python

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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I have thought about this. The solution I came up with is to divide the volume of the region by the centerline and that would give then average area of the vessel.

steps would be:

  • extract each vessel region
  • close the surface and compute the volume (straight forward for triangular surface mesh)
  • extract the vessel region centerline
  • calculate the length of vessel centerline
  • divide volume by the centerline length and viola average vessel area.

Another thing you could do:
The centerlines already have the radius values so convert the centerlines to a a graph and split the network at the junction locations. then plot each centerline.

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Thanks Kurt for your suggestions, interesting approach! I managed to read the VTP-files in Python and get the desired output.