Intravascular ultrasound-based imaging of vasa vasorum for the detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3749 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 343-351

  O'Malley, Sean M ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^b   Naghavi, Morteza ^c   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Association for Eradication of Heart Attack   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART ATTACKS; MICROVESSELS; VASA VASORUM (VV);

BIOMARKERS; HEALTH RISKS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASA VASORUM;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 33744823825     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11566465_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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