"Framing" the vessel: The critical importance of volumetric analysis during serial intravascular imaging studies

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1038-1039

  Puri, Rishi ^b   Ong, Peter ^b   Kataoka, Yu ^b   Kapadia, Samir R ^b   Tuzcu, E Murat ^b   Nicholls, Stephen J ^b   Worthley, Matthew I ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA INTIMA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LETTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STENOSIS; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84857866313     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.10.898     Document Type: Letter

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