Differentiation of early from advanced coronary atherosclerotic lesions: Systematic comparison of CT, intravascular US, and optical frequency domain imaging with histopathologic examination in ex vivo human hearts

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 393-401

  Maurovich Horvat, Pál ^a,b   Schlett, Christopher L ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,d   Nakano, Masataka ^c   Stolzmann, Paul ^a,d   Vorpahl, Marc ^c   Scheffel, Hans ^a,d   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Warger II, William C ^a   Maehara, Akiko ^g   Ma, Shixin ^g   Kriegel, Matthias F ^a   Kaple, Ryan K ^a   Seifarth, Harald ^a,f   Bamberg, Fabian ^e   Mintz, Gary S ^g   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a   Virmani, Renu ^c   Hoffmann, Udo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EX VIVO STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

CADAVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84867909925     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111891     Document Type: Article

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