PURPOSE Periprocedural assessment of tissue perfusion by imaging methods could improve outcome control during treatment of peripheral vascular disease. Currently, endovascular revascularization treatments are assessed by planar angiography which only allows for qualitative inspection of blood flow in vessels. In this paper, we present a method for periprocedural perfusion estimation based on te...

Three-dimensional (3D) information on blood flow and vessel morphology is important when assessing cerebrovascular disease and when monitoring interventions. Rotational angiography is nowadays routinely used to determine the geometry of the cerebral vasculature. To this end, contrast agent is injected into one of the supplying arteries and the x-ray system rotates around the head of the patient...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate a contrast-enhanced three-dimensional (3D) breath-hold magnetic resonance (MR) technique for detection of coronary artery stenoses. BACKGROUND The accuracy of previously published MR coronary angiography protocols varies widely. Recently, coronary artery imaging using T1-shortening contrast agent has become possible, but so far there are no...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the accuracy of adenosine myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) in diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD). BACKGROUND Adenosine stress echocardiography is not routinely used in the assessment of CAD. Since ultrasound microbubble contrast agents enable improved wall motion analysis and simultaneous assessment of myocardial perfusion, we sought to evaluate the diag...

BACKGROUND Phase-contrast x-ray imaging using an x-ray interferometer has great potential to reveal the structures inside soft tissues, because the sensitivity of this method to hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen is approximately 1000 times higher than that of the absorption-contrast x-ray method. Imaging of vessels is very important to understand the vascular distribution of organs and tum...

x-ray coronary angiography has been a gold standard in the clinical diagnosis and interventional treatment of coronary arterialdiseases for decades. in angiography, a sequence of images is obtained, a few of which are suitable for physician inspection. thispaper proposes an automatic algorithm for the extraction of one or more frames from an angiogram sequence, which is most suitablefor diagnos...

OBJECTIVES We report a comprehensive assessment and validation of a new intraoperative angiography technique. BACKGROUND Technical problems at the site of the distal anastomosis compromise an underappreciated proportion of coronary bypass grafts. The absence of a systematic, validated technique to verify graft patency in the operating room represents a significant breach in quality assurance....

BACKGROUND Multislice computed tomography (MSCT) coronary angiography is the foremost alternative to invasive coronary angiography. METHODS We sought to compare the diagnostic accuracy of MSCT in female and male patients with suspected coronary disease. Altogether 50 women and 95 men underwent MSCT with 0.5 mm detector collimation. Coronary artery stenoses of at least 50% on conventional coro...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to accurately assess the radiation exposure received by patients during cardiac catheterization in a large sample representative of the current state of practice in cardiac angiography. BACKGROUND Radiation exposure to patients and laboratory staff has been recognized as a necessary hazard in coronary angiography. The effects on x-ray exposure of the incre...