OCT imaging of vulnerable plaque: The Massachusetts General Hospital experience

Optical Coherence Tomography in Cardiovascular Research

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 121-131

  Raffel, Christopher ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Bouma, Brett E ^a   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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