Article: Research on histology detailed by scientists at Gifu University, Medical Department.(Report)

" Integrated backscatter (IB) intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and IVUS Virtual Histology (VH) have been developed for tissue characterization, but have never been compared directly. The purpose of this study was to compare the overall agreement between IB-IVUS and IVUS-VH in the tissue characterization of plaques from the same coronary arterial cross-section," scientists in Gifu, Japan report (see also Histology).

"Images were acquired from 46 coronary arteries fr5om 25 cadavers. Of a total of 392 histology/IVUS image pairs. 152 pairs were diagnosed as Stary's type III, IV, Va, Vb, and Vc, and compared for IB-IVUS, IVUS-VH and histology. In the qualitative ...

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