TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khalid, Nauman
AU  - Shlofmitz, Evan
TI  - Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS). [Review]
PY  - 2018///
KW  - IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED
KW  - MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute
KW  - Review
N2  - Copyright (c) 2018, StatPearls Publishing LLC; Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an intravascular imaging modality primarily used in interventional cardiology to characterize lesion morphology, quantify plaque burden, guide stent sizing, assess stent expansion, and identify procedural complications.[1] Using a dedicated catheter with ultrasound-based technology an image is obtainable from inside an artery producing cross-sectional images with a 360-degree view of the vessel. This technology overcomes many of the limitations of angiography, which utilizes x-ray technology to produce a 2-dimensional lumenogram of a 3-dimensional structure. Rather than assessing the vessel from the outside as with angiography, IVUS provides the assessment from within the vessel.
ER  -