Coronary atherosclerotic plaque characterization using IVUS elastography and Raman spectroscopy

Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1775-1778

  Van de Poll, Sweder W E ^a,b   De Korte, Chris L ^c   Van der Steen, Anton F W ^b,c   Puppels, Gerwin J ^c   Van der Laarse, Aronoud ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND (IVUS) ELASTOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); PRESSURE EFFECTS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EID: 0034579329     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2000.921666     Document Type: Article

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