Offline fusion of co-registered intravascular ultrasound and frequency domain optical coherence tomography images for the analysis of human atherosclerotic plaques

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-108

  Räber, Lorenz ^a,b   Heo, Jung Ho ^a,c   Radu, Maria D ^a,d   Garcia Garcia, Hector M ^a   Stefanini, Giulio G ^b   Moschovitis, Aris ^b   Dijkstra, Jouke ^e   Kelbaek, Henning ^d   Windecker, Stephan ^b   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Kosin University   (South Korea)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Co registration; Fusion; Intravascular ultrasound; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA;

ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NECROSIS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84865492834     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8I1A16     Document Type: Article

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