Feasibility of the assessment of cholesterol crystals in human macrophages using micro optical coherence tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Kashiwagi, Manabu ^a   Liu, Linbo ^b   Chu, Kengyeh K ^a   Sun, Chen Hsin ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Gardecki, Joseph A ^a   Tearney, Guillermo J ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CRYSTAL; CYTOPLASM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MICRO OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PATHOLOGY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROCEDURES;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84904542398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102669     Document Type: Article

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