Plaque erosion and acute coronary syndromes: phenotype, molecular characteristics and future directions

AC Fahed, IK Jang - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
Although acute coronary syndromes (ACS) remain one of the leading causes of death, the
clinical presentation has changed over the past three decades with a decline in the …

Artificial intelligence in intracoronary imaging

R Fedewa, R Puri, E Fleischman, J Lee… - Current cardiology …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This paper investigates present uses and future potential of
artificial intelligence (AI) applied to intracoronary imaging technologies. Recent Findings …

Near-infrared autofluorescence induced by intraplaque hemorrhage and heme degradation as marker for high-risk atherosclerotic plaques

NM Htun, YC Chen, B Lim, T Schiller… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Atherosclerosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity, which is mainly driven by
complications such as myocardial infarction and stroke. These complications are caused by …

Multi-frequency intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging

T Ma, M Yu, Z Chen, C Fei, KK Shung… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is frequently associated with the sudden rupture of a
vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque within the coronary artery. Several unique physiological …

Severity of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with a first acute coronary event: a diabetes paradox

G Niccoli, S Giubilato, L Di Vito, A Leo… - European heart …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aims We aimed to compare coronary artery disease (CAD) at the time of a first acute
coronary syndrome (ACS) in type II diabetic and non-diabetic patients by coronary …

All-optical rotational ultrasound imaging

RJ Colchester, C Little, G Dwyer, S Noimark… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Miniaturised high-resolution imaging devices are valuable for guiding minimally invasive
procedures such as vascular stent placements. Here, we present all-optical rotational B …

Advances in endoscopic photoacoustic imaging

Y Li, G Lu, Q Zhou, Z Chen - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is able to provide extremely high molecular contrast while
maintaining the superior imaging depth of ultrasound (US) imaging. Conventional …

Hybrid intravascular imaging: current applications and prospective potential in the study of coronary atherosclerosis

CV Bourantas, HM Garcia-Garcia, KK Naka… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
The miniaturization of medical devices and the progress in image processing have allowed
the development of a multitude of intravascular imaging modalities that permit more …

Integrated IVUS-OCT imaging for atherosclerotic plaque characterization

X Li, J Li, J Jing, T Ma, S Liang, J Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the diagnosis of atherosclerosis, biomedical imaging techniques such as intravascular
ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) have been developed. The …

[HTML][HTML] High speed intravascular photoacoustic imaging with fast optical parametric oscillator laser at 1.7 μm

Z Piao, T Ma, J Li, MT Wiedmann, S Huang… - Applied physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Intravascular photoacoustic imaging at 1.7 μm spectral band has shown promising
capabilities for lipid-rich vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque detection. In this work, we report …