Intravenous coronary angiography: Experience in 276 patients
Intravenous coronary angiography: Experience in 276 patients
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静脉冠状动脉造影:276 例患者的经验
DOI:
10.1080/08940889808260850
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发表时间:
1998
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通讯作者:
R. Ventura
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作者:
T. Dill;W. Dix;C. Hamm;M. Jung;W. Kupper;M. Lohmann;B. Reime;R. Ventura
Coronary angiography is the established routine imaging modality for patients with coronary artery disease. In recent years, the volume of these procedures has remarkably increased (1). Complications associated with this invasive approach are low-in the range of 1.5%-and the mortality is 0.1%(2). A further reduction of risk appears difficult to achieve because of the invasive nature of the procedure. Therefore, efforts have been made to image coronary arteries by non-invasive or minimal invasive techniques. Conventional intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA) uses a time subtraction mode and proved to be unsuitable for imaging of fastmoving small vessels like coronary arteries including sidebranches. Dichromography, on the other hand, represents a digital subtraction mode based on energy subtraction. Two images with monochromatic X-rays just below (El) and above (E,) the absorption K-edge (EK) of the contrast agent (iodine) at 33.17 keV are simultaneously obtained and logarithmically subtracted (Figure 1). Monochromatic X-rays of sufficient intensity to visualize coronary arteries of 1 mm in diameter with extremely low iodine mass density (1 mg/cm2) after intravenous injection are only provided by synchrotron radiation. At the HASYLAB at DESY, the line scan system NIKOS was developed for dichromography. It consists of six main components: a