Imaging: Focusing light on the vulnerable plaque

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 253-255

  Psaltis, Peter J ^a   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ARTERY WALL; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED AUTOFLUORESCENCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84973387089     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2016.53     Document Type: Short Survey

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