Detection of the vulnerable coronary atheromatous plaque. Where are we now?

International Journal of Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-87

  Vaina, Sophia ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiography; Angioscopy; Interventional ultrasonography; Intravascular MRI; Optical coherence tomography; Spectroscopy; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS;

ANGIOSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 23944458110     PISSN: 14628848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14628840510011252     Document Type: Review

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