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digital angiography

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digital angiography,
a technique of producing computer-enhanced radiographic images of the heart and great vessels. Before injection of contrast material through a large vein, a mask image is digitized and stored in the computer. Successive digitized images made after injection are electronically subtracted from the mask image, and the result is amplified and displayed on a video monitor. The displayed images can be recorded on videotape and stored on disk.


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2) However, CT, digital angiography (figure 3), and magnetic resonance angiography may clearly demonstrate the aberrant position and course of the carotid arteries to better advantage.
De Rothschild, Paris, France commented, "After using the Philips system, we now know that this technique is already the most important development that has occurred since digital angiography was developed in 1981.
The practice is one of the few on the west coast of Florida to offer (at all three sites) the breakthrough ICG digital angiography that pinpoints the leaking blood vessels that characterize a major form of macular degeneration.
 
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