On the potential of a new IVUS elasticity modulus imaging approach for detecting vulnerable atherosclerotic coronary plaques: In vitro vessel phantom study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5701-5721

  Le Floc'h, Simon ^a,b   Cloutier, Guy ^b,c   Finet, Gérard ^d   Tracqui, Philippe ^a   Pettigrew, Roderic I ^e   Ohayon, Jacques ^a,e,f  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; NECROSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RUPTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CORONARY VESSELS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NECROSIS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RUPTURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 78149347743     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/19/006     Document Type: Article

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