Fusion of coronary angiography and stress echocardiography for myocardial viability evaluation

Abstract

Superimposition of the occluded coronary artery and the regional myocardial viability was achieved using automated multimodality fusion of coronary angiograms and stress echocardiograms with in vitro experiments. This system is promising for integrated single step angiography and angioplasty that may reduce procedure time, cost and length of hospitalization. Further testing in vivo is needed to verify and validate the system in a clinical setting.

Real-time ultrasound and freehand-SPECT

“…The presented method is one of several recent efforts to combine different modalities. Regarding SLN diagnostics, fluorescence dyes have been used for guidance in roboter-assisted surgeries (39) and invitro studies have investigated the feasibility of combining echocardiography with coronary angiography (2).…”