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Plaque type, plaque burden, and wall shear stress relation in coronary arteries assessed by x-ray angiography and intravascular ultrasound: a qualitative study

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In this paper, we present a complete framework that automatically provides fluid-dynamic and plaque analysis from IVUS and Angiographic sequences. Such framework is used to analyze, in three coronary arteries, the relation between wall shear stress with type and amount of plaque. Preliminary qualitative results show an inverse relation between the wall shear stress and the plaque burden, which is confirmed by the fact that the plaque growth is higher on the wall having concave curvature. Regarding the plaque type it was observed that regions having low shear stress are predominantly fibro-lipidic while the heavy calcifications are in general located in areas of the vessel having high WSS.

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  • (2012)Relation between plaque type, plaque thickness, blood shear stress, and plaque stress in coronary arteries assessed by X-ray Angiography and Intravascular UltrasoundMedical Physics10.1118/1.476099339:12(7430-7445)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2012

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ISABEL '11: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies
October 2011
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ISBN:9781450309134
DOI:10.1145/2093698
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  1. X-ray angiography
  2. aterosclerosis
  3. coronary arteries
  4. fluid dynamic
  5. intravascular ultrasound
  6. plaque burden
  7. plaque type
  8. vascular morphology
  9. wall shear stress

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  • (2012)Relation between plaque type, plaque thickness, blood shear stress, and plaque stress in coronary arteries assessed by X-ray Angiography and Intravascular UltrasoundMedical Physics10.1118/1.476099339:12(7430-7445)Online publication date: 27-Nov-2012

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