User-friendly and low-cost computer system for immediate review, analysis, and reconstruction of intracoronary ultrasound images.

Rapid review, digital recording, on-line quantification, and three-dimensional reconstruction are all essential in the evaluation of intracoronary ultrasound images during coronary interventions. We describe a low-cost method that offers all these necessary features. The proposed method uses the QuickTime compatible video digitizers of standard multimedia Apple Macintosh or PowerPC desktop computers and the freeware software Object Image 1.60. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Diagn. 43:357–362, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.