Implantable cardiac devices, such as stents and septal defect closure devices are sometimes difficult to see on angiographic X-ray projection images. We present a method to enhance the visibility of these devices in rotational X-ray angiography acquisitions using automated marker detection and motion compensation. Automatic marker detection allows registration of the devices in the images of th...

Background Diagnosis of coronary ischemia by perfusion CMR has high sensitivity and specificity when using X-ray coronary angiography as the reference standard. A variety of possible reasons have been given for false negative perfusion CMR studies, such as suboptimal image quality, technical reasons, or the potential discrepancy between angiographic stenosis and detectable myocardial hypoperfus...

During coronary angiography, the use of potentially harmful X-ray radiation and iodine contrast agent should be kept to a minimum, without compromising the diagnostic accuracy of the procedure. Coronary angiography is conventionally performed in multiple stationary views at different angles around the patient. A complete X-ray run with contrast injection is made in each view. An alternative to ...

Cervical Carotid Imaging With a ContinuousWave Doppler Flowmeter • A noninvasive technique for carotid arteriography using an ultrasonic directional Doppler flowmeter to image the carotid bifurcations is described. The technique uses a position sensing arm to hold the sharply focusing probe and translates the position of arterial flow onto an image storage screen. By multiple manual sweeps acro...

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to demonstrate a new visualization method (local maximum intensity projection; LMIP) that can clearly depict densitometric as well as geometric information in vascular visualization from 3D data such as obtained from MR and CT angiography. METHOD LMIP is an extended version of maximum intensity projection (MIP). However, LMIP differs from MIP in that the l...

background vascular ring is less than 1% of congenital heart disease. double aortic arch (daa) is the most common form of it.  its detecting is important because of the effects of pressure on the esophagus and trachea. case report in this study, three children suffering from double aortic arch with symptoms of dysphagia and recurrent aspiration, which in two cases had led to cardiac arrest, wer...

OBJECTIVE The findings of magnetic resonance and x-ray angiography were compared for assessment of coronary artery stenosis in this validation study. BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance angiography of the coronary arteries has recently been described, but there has been no comparison with x-ray angiography of localisation or assessment of important characteristics of coronary stenosis. METHODS A ...

Background Vascular ring is less than 1% of congenital heart disease. Double aortic arch (DAA) is the most common form of it.  Its detecting is important because of the effects of pressure on the esophagus and trachea. Case Report In this study, three children suffering from double aortic arch with symptoms of dysphagia and recurrent aspiration, which in two cases had led to cardiac arrest, wer...