title: The OPTIS Integrated System: real-time, co-registration of angiography and optical coherence tomography.
abstract: The efficacy of an IVUS-guided stent implantation strategy to improve acute results and clinical outcome has been described previously. OCT is another technique which allows high-resolution intracoronary imaging. However, the use of invasive imaging modalities to guide PCI has, as yet, played a limited role in current clinical practice. This may be partly explained by the expertise required for interpretation and clinical decision making. We present a novel technology which enables real-time co-registration of OCT images with angiography. This will simplify matching cross-sectional images to their geographic position on the angiogram, thereby facilitating imaging-guided PCI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam; The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Johannes N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: van der Sijde
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guagliumi
authors.forename: Vasile
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sirbu
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimamura
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borghesi
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karanasos
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Regar
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*