Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque: From the basic research laboratory to the clinic

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 248-253

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Stathogiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Synetos, Andreas ^a   Karanasos, Antonios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intravascular imaging; Intravascular thermography; Intravascular ultrasound; Optical coherence tomography; Thin cap fibroatheroma; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84870348798     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345291     Document Type: Review

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