Television Tape Recording and Cinefluorography in Routine Fluoroscopic Procedures: A Comparative Study

Television tape recording of fluoroscopic images is by no means new (5, 6). Until relatively recently, owever, such recording required large expensive television tape recorders under constant skilled pervision by technical and engineering personnel. This placed their use out of the reach of all but very large specialized institutions. With the advent of transistorized, compact helical scan recorders, the size and price limitations have been largely overcome. Such devices are now within the reach of the clinical radiologist in the community hospital or private office practice. Since August, 1963, it has been our custom to employ a video tape-recording device routinely in our luoroscopic procedures. During this period, many radiologists have shown considerable interest in this modality. This interest has prompted a review of the subject and a comparison of its merits with those of the other means of physiologic recording, cineradiography. I t is neither possible nor desirable to attempt to give an elaborate...