Spectroscopic photoacoustic imaging of lipid-rich plaques in the human aorta in the 740 to 1400 nm wavelength range

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Allen, Thomas J ^a   Hall, Andrew ^b   Dhillon, Amar P ^b   Owen, James S ^b   Bearda, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Intravascular imaging; Lipid rich plaques; Photoacoustic imaging; Photoacoustic spectroscopy; Vulnerable plaques

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; LIPID; WATER;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHEMISTRY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MOTION; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WATER;

EID: 84867310268     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.17.6.061209     Document Type: Article

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