Three-dimensional and quantitative analysis of atherosclerotic plaque composition by automated differential echogenicity

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 968-978

  Bruining, Nico ^a   Verheye, Stefan ^b   Knaapen, Michiel ^c   Somers, Pamela ^c   Roelandt, Jos R T C ^a   Regar, Evelyn ^a   Heller, Iddo ^a   De Winter, Sebstiaan ^a   Ligthart, Jurgen ^a   Van Langenhove, Glenn ^b   De Feijter, Pim J ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a   Hamers, Ronald ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c HistoGeneX NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Image processing; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATION; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATION; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 38049016900     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21310     Document Type: Review

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