First operation of the medical research facility at the NSLS for coronary angiography
Creators
- 1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
- 2. Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- 3. Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, 38163 (United States)
- 4. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab.
- 5. North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, 11030 (United States)
- 6. Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
- 7. Stanford Medical School, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305 (United States)
Description
The Synchrotron Medical Research Facility (SMERF) at the National Synchrotron Light Source has been completed and is operational for human coronary angiography experiments. The imaging system and hardware have been brought to SMERF from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory where prior studies were carried out. SMERF consists of a suite of rooms at the end of the high field superconducting wiggler X17 beamline and is classified as an Ambulatory health Care Facility. Since October of 1990 the coronary arteries of five patients have been imaged. Continuously improving image quality has shown that a large part of both the right coronary artery and the left anterior descending coronary artery can be imaged following a venous injection of contrast agent. 16 refs., 4 figs
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 14 p.
- Report number
- BNL--46109
Conference
- Title
- 4. international conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation.
- Dates
- 15-19 Jul 1991.
- Place
- Manchester (United Kingdom).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23008123
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARIES; DIAGNOSIS; HARD X RADIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IODINE COMPOUNDS; MONOCHROMATORS; NSLS; OPTIMIZATION; P CODES; PERFORMANCE; PHOTON BEAMS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SHIELDING; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; WIGGLER MAGNETS
- Descriptors DEC
- ARTERIES; BEAMS; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER CODES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETS; EQUIPMENT; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MAGNETS; MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES; X RADIATION
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC02-76CH00016; FG03-87ER60527; Grant 5 R01 HL39253-04
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (United States).
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-910730--4.