TRANSVENOUS CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY IN HUMANS USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Rubenstein, E., Hofstadter, R., Zeman, H. D., Thompson, A. C., Otis, J. N., Brown, G. S., Giacomini, J. C., GORDON, H. J., Kernoff, R. S., HARRISON, D. C., Thomlinson, W. 1986; 83 (24): 9724-9728

Abstract

The risks and costs of the present method of visualizing the coronary arteries have limited the use of coronary angiography in long-term serial studies needed to establish the natural history of coronary atherosclerosis and its response to interventions. A less invasive method, in which the contrast agent is administered intravenously, has been developed using synchrotron radiation as the illuminating source. The present report describes the initial results in human subjects. The findings indicate that transvenous coronary angiograms can be acquired in this manner. Further refinements in the x-ray imaging system are expected to result in increased x-ray fluence and improved image quality.

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