Innovations in imaging for chronic total occlusions: A glimpse into the future of angiography's blind-spot

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 583-593

  Courtney, Brian K ^a,c   Munce, Nigel R ^b   Anderson, Kevan J ^b   Thind, Amandeep S ^b   Leung, General ^b   Radau, Perry E ^c   Foster, F Stuart ^b,c   Vitkin, I Alex ^b,d   Schwartz, Robert S ^e   Dick, Alexander J ^a,c   Wright, Graham A ^b,c   Strauss, Bradley H ^a,c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac MRI; Chronic total occlusions; CT coronary angiography; Image guided interventions; Intravascular ultrasound; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 48049120463     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm634     Document Type: Review

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