Are Microcalcification and Hemosiderin Really Limitations of OCT in Detection of TCFA?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 215-

  Nakano, Masataka ^a   Yahagi, Kazuyuki ^a   Virmani, Renu ^a   Ikari, Yuji ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; HEMOSIDERIN;

ATHEROMA; BLEEDING; CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LETTER; MACROPHAGE; MICROCALCIFICATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROCEDURES;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84977607738     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.04.030     Document Type: Letter

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