Safety and usefulness of non-occlusion image acquisition technique for optical coherence tomography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1536-1537

  Kataiwa, Hideaki ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Kitabata, Hironori ^a   Imanishi, Toshio ^a   Akasaka, Takashi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imaging; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Plaque

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 50449104976     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0406     Document Type: Article

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