Looking Into the Vessel: The More You See, the More You Want to See

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 556-559

  Kern, Morton J ^a   Narula, Jagat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOLOGIST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISSECTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STENT; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 47349089159     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.05.011     Document Type: Editorial

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