Intraoperative IR imaging in the cardiac operating room

Tamas Szabo; Levente Fazekas; Ferenc Horkay; Laslu Geller; Tibor Gyongy; Alexander Juhasz-Nagy

doi:10.1117/12.354506

26 July 1999 Intraoperative IR imaging in the cardiac operating room

Tamas Szabo, Levente Fazekas, Ferenc Horkay, Laslu Geller, Tibor Gyongy, Alexander Juhasz-Nagy

Proceedings Volume 3698, Infrared Technology and Applications XXV; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354506
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The high blood flow rate and the considerable metabolic activity render the myocardium a possible candidate for IR imaging. The study was aimed to test cardiothermography in evaluating arterial bypass graft patency and in assessing myocardial protection during open-heart surgery. Ten patients underwent arterial bypass grafting. Thermograms were obtained immediately before and after opening the grafts. As the bypasses were opened in hypothermia the warmer blood coming from the extracorporeal circulation readily delineated graft and coronary anatomy. By the end of the 5 min observation period, the revascularized area exhibited a temperature increase of 5.9 +/- 0.7 degrees C. The affectivity of antegrade cardioplegia was monitored in 38 patients undergoing either valve implantations or aorto- coronary bypass surgery. Thermographic imags were taken after sternotomy, before aortic cross-clamping and after administrating the 4 degrees C cardioplegic solution. Most of the patients displayed adequate myocardial cooling, moreover the bypass-group exhibited a more profound temperature-decrease. In conclusion, cardiothermography can visualize arterial grafts, recipient coronaries and collaterals seconds after opening by bypass, thus it properly evaluated arterial bypass graft patency. The obtained images could easily be analyzed for qualitative flow- and quantitative temperature changes. Myocardial protection could also be safely assessed with thermography.

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Tamas Szabo, Levente Fazekas, Ferenc Horkay, Laslu Geller, Tibor Gyongy, and Alexander Juhasz-Nagy "Intraoperative IR imaging in the cardiac operating room", Proc. SPIE 3698, Infrared Technology and Applications XXV, (26 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354506

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