Are our tools for the identification of TCFA ready and do we know them?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 656-658

  Virmani, Renu ^a  

^a CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound; near infrared spectroscopy; optical coherence tomography; thin cap fibroatheroma; virtual histology

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ATHEROMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NECROSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79958831422     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.01.019     Document Type: Editorial

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