Ruptured vulnerable plaque (VP) is blamed for the majority of acute myocardial infarctions and many strokes, but ...
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an catheter-based intravascular imaging technology that uses low-coherence light interferometry, using near-infrared light, to capture high-resolution 2-D and 3-D image reconstructions of coronary arteries. It has a lower level of tissue penetration than intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), but offers much higher resolution images of the tissues. It is used to determine the nature and extent of the atheroscleratic disease in the vessel wall, to assess in-stent restenosis and aid catheter procedure navigation in the cath lab.
Feature | Stents Bioresorbable | Dave Fornell
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Metal stents are foreign objects that can irritate vessels and cause stent thrombosis, prevent vessel ...
September 17, 2009
August 21, 2009 – The Cardiovascular Rearch Foundation, the sponsor of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...
August 20, 2009
July 9, 2009 - Volcano Corporation said yesterday it signed a termination agreement with its largest distributor ...
July 09, 2009
June 1, 2009 - Six months after placement of a vProtect Luminal Shield to treat a "vulnerable plaque,” a follow ...
June 01, 2009
May 21, 2009 - LightLab Imaging Inc. this week is launching its next generation optical coherence tomography (OCT) ...
May 21, 2009
Feature | Dave Fornell
While angiography is the gold standard for vascular imaging in the cath lab, new intravascular imaging modalities ...
February 11, 2009January 6, 2009 - LightLab Imaging Inc. said the number of clinical intravascular optical coherence tomography ...
January 05, 2009
December 30, 2008 - Volcano Corp. will acquire Axsun Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of lasers and ...
December 30, 2008December 23, 2008 - Volcano Corp., a manufacturer of products for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and ...
December 22, 2008
Feature | Ellen W. Rothschild, RN, MS
There is considerable interest in being able to clearly identify vulnerable plaque (VP) and research efforts are ...
October 30, 2008October 20, 2008 – At TCT last week Abbott announced two-year data from 30 patients in its ABSORB clinical trial ...
October 19, 2008October 12, 2008 – Research results indicate that optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be the best tool ...
October 12, 2008
Feature | Nick Obradovich
The only safe assumption to make about today’s current gold standard imaging modality used to identify and ...
July 09, 2008May 8, 2008 – The first human procedure using the Volcano OCT imaging catheter, which uses optical coherence ...
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