Cardiovascular OCT Imaging

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jang, Ik-Kyung (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Diagnostic Radiology.

This book is a detailed review of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in cardiovascular practice. OCT enables cross-sectional and volumetric imaging of internal structure and pathology in biological tissues, thus performing an “optical biopsy”, imaging pathology in situ and in real time without the n...

Table of Contents:

• History of OCT
• Physics of OCT
• Histology validation of OCT images
• Characterization of coronary plaques
• Basic interpretation skill
• Early stent evaluation
• Late stent changes
• Bioabsorbable stent
• Stent thrombosis
• Neoatherosclerosis
• Consensus document
• Future development. .