Imaging and characterization of coronary lesions with optical coherence tomography

Author

Schmitt, J.M. ; Petersen, C.L. ; Mont, E. ; Virmani, R.

Author_Institution

LightLab Imaging, Westford, MA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

109

Abstract

An intravascular OCT system is described for simultaneous acquisition of backscatter, polarization, and spectroscopic images from coronary arteries. Preliminary experiments were carried out to test the performance of the system in tissue phantoms and in excised arteries. Images displaying measurements of fibrous tissue content and water content in diseased lesions are presented. The results encourage further development of multi-modality OCT imaging for clinical application.

Keywords

backscatter; biomedical equipment; biomedical optical imaging; blood vessels; cardiovascular system; light polarisation; light scattering; optical tomography; clinical application; coronary lesions characterization; coronary lesions imaging; diseased lesions; excised arteries; fibrous tissue content; medical diagnostic imaging; multimodality OCT imaging; optical coherence tomography; spectroscopic images; tissue phantoms; water content; Angiography; Arteries; Backscatter; Lesions; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical scattering; Spectroscopy; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Imaging, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7584-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBI.2002.1029204

Filename

1029204