A novel alignment procedure to assess calcified coronary plaques in histopathology, post-mortem computed tomography angiography and optical coherence tomography

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2019, Pages 25-29

  Precht, Helle ^a,b   Broersen, Alexander ^c   Kitslaar, Pieter H ^c,d   Dijkstra, Jouke ^c   Gerke, Oke ^a,e   Thygesen, Jesper ^f   Egstrup, Kenneth ^a   Leth, Peter Mygind ^e   Hardt Madsen, Michael ^a   Nielsen, Bjarne ^a   Falk, Erling ^g   Lambrechtsen, Jess ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LILLEBAELT   (Denmark)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Medis Medical Imaging Systems bv   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f University of Southern Denmark ^*  (Denmark)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alignment; Calcified coronary plaques; Histopathology; Optical coherence tomography; Postmortem computed tomography angiography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 85059172112     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: 18791336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2018.11.005     Document Type: Article

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