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16996414

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-9-25
pubmed:abstractText
With technical improvements in catheter designs, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) imaging of coronary arteries has become a routine procedure in most cardiac catheterization laboratories. In clinical practice, IVUS imaging of the coronary arteries is commonly performed to answer specific clinical questions such as the evaluation of an indeterminate narrowing of the left main coronary artery. In recent years, IVUS is also being performed as an endpoint for drug treatment trials in the assessment of atherosclerosis progression and/or regression. In this review we will focus on how validation studies of coronary IVUS systems have advanced our ability to use this powerful imaging tool and understand IVUS images, how acoustic and geometric factors affect proposed image processing tools and illustrate some current clinical uses of coronary IVUS.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0895-7967
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
132-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Intravascular ultrasound in the coronary arteries.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Cardiology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA. cmckay@labiomed.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review