High-resolution imaging technology reveals cellular details of coronary arteries
Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the intravascular imaging technology optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can reveal cellular and subcellular features of coronary artery disease. In a Nature Medicine paper receiving advance online publication, the investigators describe how microOCT which provides 10 times greater resolution than standard OCT was able to show individual arterial and inflammatory cells, including features that may identify vulnerable plaques, within coronary artery samples.