Intravascular optical imaging technology for investigating the coronary artery

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1022-1039

  Suter, Melissa J ^a   Nadkarni, Seemantini K ^a   Weisz, Giora ^b   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Jaffer, Farouc A ^a   Bouma, Brett E ^a,c   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

intracoronary; optical diagnostics; optical imaging

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANGIOSCOPY; ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LASERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80052812131     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.03.020     Document Type: Review

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