Intravascular imaging

Intravascular imaging
	Medical diagnostics
Purpose	provides detailed and accurate measurements of vessel lumen morphology

Short description: Subset of medical imaging

Intravascular imaging is a catheter based system that allows physicians such as interventional cardiologists to acquire images of diseased vessels from inside the artery. Intravascular imaging provides detailed and accurate measurements of vessel lumen morphology, vessel size, extension of diseased artery segments, vessel size and plaque characteristics. Examples of intravascular imaging modalities are intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT or IVOCT).^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Mintz, Gary S. (2015). "Intravascular Imaging of Coronary Calcification and Its Clinical Implications". JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 8 (4): 461–471. doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.02.003. ISSN 1936-878X. PMID 25882575.
↑ Christos V. Bourantas, Farouc A. Jaffer, Frank J. Gijsen, Gijs van Soest, Sean P. Madden, Brian K. Courtney, Ali M. Fard, Erhan Tenekecioglu, Yaping Zeng, Antonius F. W. van der Steen, Stanislav Emelianov, James Muller, Peter H. Stone, Laura Marcu, Guillermo J. Tearney & Patrick W. Serruys (2016). "Hybrid intravascular imaging: recent advances, technical considerations, and current applications in the study of plaque pathophysiology". European Heart Journal 38 (6): 400–412. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw097. PMID 27118197.