First use in patients of a combined near infra-red spectroscopy and intra-vascular ultrasound catheter to identify composition and structure of coronary plaque.
Garg
Scot
S
Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Serruys
Patrick W
PW
van der Ent
Martin
M
Schultz
Carl
C
Mastik
Frits
F
van Soest
Gijs
G
van der Steen
Antonius F W
AF
Wilder
Mark A
MA
Muller
James E
JE
Regar
Evelyn
E
D000368:Aged; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D019265:Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared / Q000379:methods*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*