Challenges on the frontier of intracoronary imaging: Atherosclerotic plaque macrophage measurement by optical coherence tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Bouma, Brett E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary imaging; Macrophage; Optical coherence tomography; Optical imaging; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AVERAGE SIZE; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY IMAGING; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; IN-VIVO; INTRAVASCULAR; OPTICAL IMAGING; PLAQUE RUPTURE; VULNERABLE PLAQUES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; HEART; TOMOGRAPHY;

MACROPHAGES;

CD68 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

CELL COUNT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CELL COUNT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77953140696     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3290810     Document Type: Article

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