Intravascular multispectral optoacoustic tomography of atherosclerosis: Prospects and challenges

Imaging in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-310

  Rosenthal, Amir ^a   Jaffer, Farouc A ^b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; intravascular imaging; molecular imaging; multispectral imaging; optical imaging; optoacoustic imaging; photoacoustic imaging; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY WALL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MULTISPECTRAL OPTOACOUSTIC TOMGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 84862841821     PISSN: 17555191     EISSN: 17555205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/iim.12.20     Document Type: Review

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