Imaging of vulnerable coronary artery plaques

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 66-75

  Hamdan, Ashraf ^a,b   Assali, Abid ^a,b   Fuchs, Shmuel ^a,b   Battler, Alexander ^a,b   Kornowski, Ran ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34447120685     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21117     Document Type: Review

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