| List of contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Endothelium control of vascular tone and growth: Potential role in coronary artery disease | p. 3 |
| Endothelial function in atherosclerosis | p. 19 |
| Why and how should QCA systems be validated? | p. 33 |
| Percutaneous implantation of coronary stenosis phantoms in an anesthetized swine model to validate current quantitative angiography analysis systems | p. 49 |
| Comparison of accuracy and precision of quantitative coronary arterial analysis between cinefilm and digital systems | p. 67 |
| Angiographic core laboratory analyses of arterial phantom images: Comparative evaluations of accuracy and precision | p. 87 |
| Task force of the ESC on digital cardiovascular imaging | p. 105 |
| Which media are most likely to solve the archival problem? | p. 111 |
| Control and mechanics of the coronary circulation | p. 129 |
| Possibilities and limitations of myocardial flow reserve | p. 141 |
| Myocardial flow reserve: On-line versus off-line assessment techniques | p. 161 |
| On-line assessment of myocardial flow reserve | p. 173 |
| Relationship between transstenotic pressure gradients and coronary angiographic parameters | p. 191 |
| Intracoronary pressure measurements for calculation of flow reserve | p. 207 |
| Intracoronary Doppler flow velocity in coronary interventions | p. 227 |
| The instantaneous hyperemic pressure-flow relationship in conscious humans | p. 247 |
| Progress towards improved measurements of coronary vascular dynamics in clinical practice: A comparative summary of new approaches based on measurements during maximal hyperemia | p. 269 |
| Towards complete assessment of progression/regression of coronary atherosclerosis: Implications for intervention trials | p. 295 |
| Are qualitative features of coronary artery lesions useful in predicting progression? | p. 307 |
| Laser overview | p. 327 |
| Coronary atherectomy devices | p. 339 |
| Rotational atherectomy - An overview | p. 353 |
| Coronary angioscopy - An inner view | p. 369 |
| Intracoronary imaging with ultrasound | p. 383 |
| Fluorescence spectroscopy for arterial imaging | p. 395 |
| 3-Dimensional reconstruction of intravascular ultrasound data | p. 401 |
| Index | p. 413 |
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