Quantitative Coronary and Left Ventricular Cineangiography: Methodology and Clinical Applications

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Left ventricular and coronary cineangiography; overview of techniques, applications and limitations....Pages 3-40
Cineangiocardiography....Pages 41-61
Cardiovascular Angiography Analysis System....Pages 62-89
Contouromat — A hard-wired left ventricular angio processing system....Pages 90-115
Validation quantitation techniques of coronary and left ventricular cineangiograms....Pages 116-139
Assessment of dimensions and image quality of coronary contrast catheters from cineangiograms....Pages 140-151
Densitometric analysis coronary cineangiograms....Pages 152-169
3-D reconstruction of coronary arterial segments from two projections....Pages 170-184
Structural analysis of the coronary and retinal arterial tree....Pages 185-213
A methodological review of quantification systems for coronary and left ventricular cineangiograms....Pages 214-241
Quantitative Assessment of regional left ventricular function: endocardial landmark motion....Pages 242-258
The cardiovascular database and the coronary reporting system....Pages 259-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Influence of intracoronary nifedipine on left ventricular function, coronary vasomotility, and myocardial oxygen consumption....Pages 275-294
Effect of intracoronary thrombolytic therapy on global and regional left ventricular function. A three years experience with randomization....Pages 295-314
Effect of coronary occlusion during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in man on left ventricular chamber stiffness and regional diastolic pressure-radius relations....Pages 315-325
Is transluminal coronary angioplasty mandatory after successful thrombolysis? A quantitative coronary angiographic study....Pages 326-338
Assessment of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty by quantitative coronary angiography: diameter versus densitometric area measurements....Pages 339-350
Left ventricular performance, regional blood flow, wall motion and lactate metabolism during transluminal angioplasty....Pages 351-372
The role of vascular wall thickening during changes in coronary artery tone....Pages 373-385
Responses of normal and obstructed coronary arterial segments to cold stimulation; a quantitative angiographic study....Pages 386-395
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Quantitative angiography of the left anterior descending coronary artery: correlations with pressure gradient and exercise thallium scintigraphy....Pages 396-407
Quantitative coronary angiography in a lipid intervention study (The Leiden Diet Intervention Trial)....Pages 408-425
Asynchrony in regional filling dynamics as a consequence of uncoordinated segmental contraction during coronary transluminal occlusion....Pages 426-448
Back Matter....Pages 449-454