Salvatore Brugaletta, Hector M Garcia-Garcia, Patrick W Serruys, Sanneke de Boer, Jurgen Ligthart, Josep Gomez-Lara, Karen Witberg, Roberto Diletti, Joanna Wykrzykowska, Robert-Jan van Geuns, Carl Schultz, Evelyn Regar, Henricus J Duckers, Nicolas van Mieghem, Peter de Jaegere, Sean P Madden, James E Muller, Antonius F W van der Steen, Wim J van der Giessen, Eric Boersma
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare the findings of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) virtual histology (VH), and grayscale IVUS obtained in matched coronary vessel segments of patients undergoing coronary angiography. BACKGROUND: Intravascular ultrasound VH has been developed to add tissue characterization to the grayscale IVUS assessment of coronary plaques. Near-infrared spectroscopy is a new imaging technique able to identify lipid core-containing coronary plaques (LCP)...
June 2011: JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging