Diagnosis of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and ultrasound imaging

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2663-2666

  Jo, J A ^a   Fang, Q ^b   Papaioannou, T ^c   Qiao, J H ^d   Fishbein, M C ^d   Beseth, B ^d   Dorafshar, A H ^d   Reil, T ^d   Baker, D ^d   Freischlag, J ^e   Shung, K K ^f   Sun, L ^f   Marcu, L ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Laguerre expansion technique; Time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; LAGUERRE EXPANSION TECHNIQUES; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LASER APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DISEASES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34047122297     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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