Diagnosis of thin-capped fibroatheromas in intravascular optical coherence tomography images

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Phipps, Jennifer E ^a   Hoyt, Taylor ^a   Vela, Deborah ^b   Wang, Tianyi ^c   Michalek, Joel E ^a   Buja, L Maximilian ^b   Jang, Ik Kyung ^d   Milner, Thomas E ^c   Feldman, Marc D ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; lipids; myocytes, smooth muscle; plaque, amyloid; tomography, optical coherence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CADAVER; CARDIAC IMAGING; CELL INFILTRATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; FOAM CELL; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; THIN CAPPED FIBROATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOPSY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FIBROSIS; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; BIOPSY; CADAVER; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84978879631     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.115.003163     Document Type: Article

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