Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a lesion measuring device for use with cardiac catheterization assemblies. In one embodiment, the assembly comprises a plurality of rulers physically attached to at least one housing. The housing is configured to connect the assembly to a catheterization assembly. The assembly includes a slidable member engaged with at least one of the plurality of rulers, and a torquer configured to move in relation to a guidewire and the slidable member.

Abstract: A video encoder (300) and method (400) for encoding video content that performs providing (402) transform coefficients and associated side information for macroblocks forming part of a frame of a video stream. Next the method processes (403) the transform coefficients and associated side information to obtain entropy coded information for the macroblocks. Slices are formed (404) from the entropy coded information, the slices having slice widths that are adaptively adjusted based upon the non-uniformity of video content of the frame.