Current applications of optical coherence tomography for coronary intervention

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-16

  Ferrante, Giuseppe ^a   Presbitero, Patrizia ^a   Whitbourn, Robert ^b,c   Barlis, Peter ^c,d  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary stents; Imaging; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOSCOPY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTIFACT; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT THROMBOSIS; BIOSORPTION; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; HYPERPLASIA; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPLANTATION; INTRA STENT DISSECTION; INTRASTENT DISSECTION CAVITY; INTRASTENT DISSECTION FLAP; LIGHT; NEOINTIMAL HYPERPLASIA; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT COMPLICATION; STENT EDGE DISSECTION; STENT IMPLANTATION; STENT MALAPPOSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBUS; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE PROLAPSE; TISSUES;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876102895     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.02.013     Document Type: Review

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