Video networking of cardiac catheterization laboratories.
A video telecommunication network was established to transmit coronary images between a cardiac catheterization laboratory and a remote core laboratory. In 40 patients during interventional procedures, cine angiograms, live fluoroscopy, intravascular ultrasound studies, and images of the cath lab were transmitted in real time over a T1 line at 768 kbits/second at 15 frames/second.


RESULTS
Measurements of angiographic and intravascular ultrasound parameters were very close between the original studies and the transmitted images. The telecommunication link up during the interventional procedures had a significant affect in 58% of cases.
Tobis
J
J
University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, Orange 92868-3298, USA.
Aharonian
V
V
Mansukhani
P
P
Jhandyala
R
R
Kasaoka
S
S
Son
R
R
Browning
R
R
Youngblood
L
L
Thompson
M
M
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002932:Cineangiography; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional; D014743:Videotape Recording