title: [Digitalized angiography in coronary disease].
abstract: In cardiology, digital subtraction angiography after intravenous injection of contrast medium allows only the visualization of relative large structures as the ventricles and the great vessels. Subselective intra-arterial injections are attractive, but do not provide an appreciable reduction of the injected amount of contrast medium. A reduction is possible with selective injections, but good subtraction is only possible for non-moving arteries or for arteries with truly periodic movement (ECG gated subtraction). With the improvement of spatial and temporal resolution, digital angiography (without image subtraction) could replace conventional angiography, provided that the main problem of prohibitive costs associated to the stockage of image sequences with high spatial (1024 x 1024) and temporal (25 images/s) resolution is solved. At the present, however, the cinefilm 35 mm is still unbeaten in density of information, handling and costs. In interventional cardiology, the visualization of small coronary branches and of fine, fast moving guide-wires is improved by the digitalization of the images at the source, pulsed fluoroscopy, progressive scanning of the TV camera with temporary stockage of image sequences and the selective reinforcement of the image contrast in real time. Digital angiography is also more attractive than the cinefilm in view of a better exploitation of the information contained in angiographic sequences by sophisticated, computer assisted methods. For instance, parametric imaging for analysis of the contraction and relaxation of the left ventricle, or for the visualization of the progression of contrast medium to investigate the coronary circulation, condensing in one single image the information looked for, are fields where digital angiography has given new impulses to cardiologic research.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Cardiologie, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, Genève, Suisse.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Doriot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chappuis
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rutishauser
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013382:Subtraction Technique
vernacular_title: L'apport de l'angiographie numérisée dans la maladie coronarienne.