Quantitative Coronary Angiography in Clinical Practice
Quantitative coronary angiography has become an invaluable tool for the interventional cardiologist, providing objective and reproducible measurements of coronary artery dimensions, which can be used to study progression or regression of coronary atherosc
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Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine VOLUME 145
The titZes published in this series are listed at t, ,e end of this voZume.
QUANTITATIVE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE edited by
PATRICK W. SERRUYS, DAVID P. FOLEY andPIM J. DE FEYTER Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam The Netherlands with a foreword by
SPENCER B. KING III Director, Andreas Gruentzig, Cardiovascular Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia,
u.s.A.
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quantltative coranary angiography ln cllnlcal practlce ! edlted by Patrick W. Serruys, David P. Foley, and Pim J. de Feyter. p. cm. -- (Developments ln cardiovascular medlclne ; v. 145) Inc 1udes index. Includes bibliographiCal references and lndex. ISBN 978-90-481-4295-8 ISBN 978-94-015-8358-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8358-9
1. Angiocardiography. 2. Coronary arteries--Radiography. II. Foley, DaVld P. III. De Feyter, P,m J. IV. Series. [DNLM, 1. Coronary Angiography--methods. 2. Coronary Disease-diagnosls. 3. Coronary Disease--therapy. 4. Coronary Vessels-physiopathology. W1 DE997VME v. 145 1994 I WG 141 Q12 1994l RC683.5.A5Q35 1994 616.1 . 2307572--dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 93-22792 1. Serruys, P. W.
ISBN 978-90-481-4295-8
Printed on acid-free paper
Cover illustration by Jan Tuin, clinica! photographer of the Thorax Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1994 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic Of mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage am;! retrieval system, without written permission from the copy-right owners.
Contents
List of Contributors
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Foreword by Speneer B. King III
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Introduetion by Johan H.C. Reiber
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Part One: Validation of QCA: In vitro and in vivo, off-Iine and online studies 1. Why and how should QCA systems be validated? Johan H.C. Reiber
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2. Aeeuraey and preeision of quantitative digital coronary arteriography; observer-, as weH as short- and medium-term variabilities Johan H.C. Reiber, Pieter M.J. van der Zwet, Gerhard Koning, Craig D. von Land, Bert van Meurs, Jan J. Gerbrands, Beert Buis and Ad E. van Voorthuisen
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3. How reliable are geometrie coronary measurements? In vitro and in vivo validation of digital and einefilm-based quantitative eoronary analysis systems with a didactic methodological explanation by Cornelis J. Slager, Jürgen Haase and Johan C.H. Schuurbiers Jürgen Haase, David Keane, Carlo Di Mario, Javier Eseaned, Cornelis J. Slager and Patriek W. Serruys
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4. Validation of videodensitometry in the assessment of stenosis phantoms: an in vitro and in vivo study Carlo Di Mario, Jürgen Haase, Javier Eseaned, Eline Montau and Patriek W. Serruys
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Contents
5. Videodensi
