Myocardial fractional flow reserve: a biplane angiocardiographic alternative to the pressure gradient method

Marc Schrijver; Cornelis H. Slump; Corstiaan J. Storm

doi:10.1117/12.428172

21 May 2001 Myocardial fractional flow reserve: a biplane angiocardiographic alternative to the pressure gradient method

Marc Schrijver, Cornelis H. Slump, Corstiaan J. Storm

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Proceedings Volume 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428172
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Pijls and De Bruyne (1993) developed a method employing intravascular blood pressure gradients to calculate the Myocardial Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR). This flow reserve is a better indication of the functional severity of a coronary stenosis than percentage diameter or luminal area reduction as provided by traditional Quantitative Coronary Angiography (QCA). However, to use this method, all of the relevant artery segments have to be select intra-operatively. After the procedure, only the segments for which a pressure reading is available can be graded. We previously introduced another way to assess the functional severity of stenosis using angiographic projections: the Relative Coronary Flow Reserve (RCFR). It is based on standard densitometric blood velocity and flow reserve methods, but without the need to estimate the geometry of the artery. This paper demonstrates that this RCFR method yields -- in theory -- the same results as the FFR, and can be given an almost identical interpretation. This provides the opportunity to use the RCFR retrospectively, when pressure gradients are not available for the segment(s) of interest.

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Marc Schrijver, Cornelis H. Slump, and Corstiaan J. Storm "Myocardial fractional flow reserve: a biplane angiocardiographic alternative to the pressure gradient method", Proc. SPIE 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, (21 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428172

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