Intracoronary Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Imaging for Detection of Lipid Content of Coronary Plaques: Current Experience and Future Perspectives

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-430

  Jaguszewski, Milosz ^a   Klingenberg, Roland ^a   Landmesser, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Chemogram; Coronary lesions; Intracoronary near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) Imaging; Lipid content of coronary plaques

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CATHETER; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REVIEW;

EID: 84884776350     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-013-9224-2     Document Type: Review

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