title: Technical report: A low cost technique for vessel sizing in angioplasty.
abstract: Vessel measurement in angiography is important for balloon and stent sizing. The most accurate techniques involve calibrating the angiographic image with a catheter with radioopaque markers, but these are expensive. A new method of vessel sizing for angioplasty and stenting is described: the guidewire is moved within the vessel through a set distance, and this movement is shown by digital subtraction. Testing with phantoms shows this to be simple, accurate and reproducible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Snow
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bennetts
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging