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Which do you prefer, OCT or IVUS?
Author(s) -
Tobis Jonathan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26093
Subject(s) - medicine , stent , lumen (anatomy) , radiology , measure (data warehouse) , optical coherence tomography , intravascular ultrasound , standard deviation , nuclear medicine , statistics , data mining , mathematics , computer science
Key Points OCT has higher resolution than IVUS. This study compared the measurements of lumen and stent diameters from IVUS or OCT but the images were chosen by the 11 observers so that the exact same images were not measured. The standard deviation of the measurements is tighter with OCT images. The absolute difference in measurements was small. This may be clinically insignificant, but operators may feel that it is easier to measure stent size from the OCT images.