Quantification of macrophage content in atherosclerotic plaques by optical coherence tomography

Circulation

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-119

  Tearney, Guillermo J ^b   Yabushita, Hiroshi ^a   Houser, Stuart L ^b   Aretz, H Thomas ^b   Jang, Ik Kyung ^b   Schlendorf, Kelly H ^b   Kauffman, Christopher R ^b   Shishkov, Milen ^b   Halpern, Elkan F ^b   Bouma, Brett E ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Catheters; Imaging; Plaque; Tomography

Indexed keywords

PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGRANULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACTINS; AGED; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIGHT; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037422532     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000044384.41037.43     Document Type: Article

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