Progress in intracoronary optical coherence tomography

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 706-714

  Suter, Melissa Jane ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Oh, Wang Yuhl ^a   Bouma, Brett E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; coronary arteries; intravascular imaging; optical coherence tomography (OCT); optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI); polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS OCT)

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERIES; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

BLOOD VESSELS; CAPILLARY FLOW; DISEASES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77955511276     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2035333     Document Type: Article

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