Thermography of human arterial system by means of new thermography catheters

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-58

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,b   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Heat; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY;

AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034848943     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1237     Document Type: Article

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