Coronary angiography in the angioplasty era: projections with a meaning

Evaluation of coronary angiographic projections to balance the clinical yield with the radiation risk

“…The overall effect of the proposed algorithm is to bias the Q set score to deliver the optimum compromise between the number of views used, the quality of [14]. The system used by Di Mario and Sutaria translates to the classification of a view that is not recommended as 0, occasionally useful as 1 and very useful as 2.…”

“…The information quality yield for each segment delivered by each projection is taken from the work by Di Mario and Sutaria [14] and is shown in Table 1. As this paper deals with the selection of a set of views for standard coronary angiography, analysis involving coronary artery bypass graft studies has not been included.…”

Optimization of Radiation Dose and Image Quality in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories

“…Kuon et al, 2004 published an interesting paper focused on identification of less-irradiation tube angulations in invasive cardiology. Di Mario & Sutaria, 2005 published a review of techniques to obtain optimal views of all segments of the coronary arterial system. Remove anti-scatter grid when imaging small children.…”

A Specific Angiographic View of Left Coronary Artery Bifurcation in the Left Main Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Era

“…The introduction of coronary angioplasty in clinical practice by Grüntzig in 1978 and the subsequent improvement of the technique with the use of the drug eluting stents allowed percutaneous approaches to the treatment of complex lesions which require more detailed angiographic studies. The cranial and caudal angiographic views associated with the standard transversal projections and its combinations currently used in the clinical practice were practically all described in the 1970s and are restricted to hemodynamic textbooks …”