Virtual histology: Does it add anything?

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 897-898

  Nakazawa, Gaku ^a   Finn, Aloke V ^b   Virmani, Renu ^a  

^a CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; EDITORIAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LIPID COMPOSITION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SUDDEN DEATH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIO WAVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34547169073     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.109371     Document Type: Editorial

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