Clinical Validation and Evaluation of ClarityIQ Cardiac Image Processing for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention

Fluoroscopically guided procedures are associated with a risk of radiation injury to the skin, caused by high peak skin dose. The increasingly complex nature of many of the interventions performed requires the use of significant amounts of radiation for their completion. Of particular relevance to dose reduction concerns are obese patients, for whom additional radiation is often necessary to obtained sufficient diagnostic quality, as well as patients suffering from chronic total coronary occlusions (CTO), for whom long procedures with extended radiation time and contrast usage are common. In order to introduce a dose reduction technology the most important aspect is to validate the diagnostic image information. Philips has developed a new algorithm that is capable to process images with similar image quality but acquired at lower dose.