PMID: 9173708Mar 1, 1997Paper

Effect of qualitative stenosis characteristics on the quality of measurements of various QCA systems

Zeitschrift für Kardiologie
U DietzJ Meyer

Abstract

Reproducibility and accuracy of in vitro measurements are very high using recently developed QCA systems. We analyzed the impact of lesion characteristics ad the image quality on the quality of measurements under clinical conditions. For the study we selected 57 coronary artery lesions which had a clinically relevant distribution for stenosis severity, lesion characteristics, and image quality. Every effort was made to eliminate procedural sources of error. Three investigators measured each lesion five times with each of three QCA systems (AWOS, Cardio and CMS). Only the measurements of the minimal stenosis diameter were analyzed. The precision of all the measurements was high with the AWOS (0.04 mm), the Cardio (0.05 mm), and the CMS systems (0.06 mm). Variability of measurements increased for the following criteria: Ambrose-III morphology (CMS 0.082 mm), surface irregularities (Cardio 0.069 mm, CMS 0.073 mm), TIMI I (Cardio 0.084 mm, CMS 0.0121 mm), and moderate image quality (CMS 0.07 mm). There were no differences in the precision of the measurements in the other groups of lesion characteristics. There were no relevant differences in any of the measurements between the systems (AWOS-Cardio -0.07 mm, AWOS-CMS-0.11 mm, Cardio...Continue Reading

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Jul 18, 2001·Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions : Official Journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions·U DietzC Hamm

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