State of the Art in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography

I: Technical developments in coronary angiography.- 1. Quality considerations on cine-imaging and PTCA-fluoroscopy anticipating a digital future.- 2. Digital coronary arteriography.- 3. Digital imaging modalities for coronary and myocardial wall studies.- 4. Myocardial densograms from digital subtraction angiography with apparent cardiac arrest.- 5. A tomographic approach to intravenous coronary arteriography.- 6. CT of the heart.- II: Quantitative coronary cineangiography.- 7. Quantitation of coronary artery stenosis severity: limitations of angiography and computerized information extraction.- 8. A second look at quantitative coronary angiography: some unexpected problems.- 9. Approaches towards standardization in acquisition and quantitation of arterial dimensions from cineangiograms.- III: Can we measure coronary blood flow from contrast injection?.- 10. Determination of coronary blood flow and myocardial perfusion by digital image processing.- 11. Densitometric assessment ofcoronary blood velocity and flow in man from coronary angiography: possibilities and problems.- IV: Coronary obstruction and its physiologic significance.- 12. Assessment of stenosis severity.- 13. Effects of coronary artherosclerosis on coronary reserve.- 14. Effects of coronary artery stenosis, aortic insufficiency and aortic stenosis on coronary blood flow in the dog.- 15. Pressure gradient, exercise thallium-201 scintigraphy, quantitative coronary cineangiography: in what sense are these measurements related?.- Index of subjects.