Open AccessClinical Coronary Chemograms and Lipid Core Containing Coronary Plaques
Author(s) -
Brijeshwar Maini
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.07.010
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , core (optical fiber) , food and drug administration , pharmacology , materials science , composite material
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a catheter-mounted near-infrared spectroscopy system (InfraReDx, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts) for the identification of lipid core–containing coronary plaques. The readouts of chemical composition are called chemograms and
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