Vol 61, No 4 (2002)
Technical Note
Published online: 2002-08-29
Intravascular ultrasound assessment of blood vessel morphology
Folia Morphol 2002;61(4):309-312.
Abstract
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an invasive imaging technique, characterized
by the ability to depict the tomographic section of blood vessels’ lumen and
wall. Thus, it enables the performance of a unique in-vivo assessment of the
luminal area and three-layer wall morphology, as well as atherosclerosis within
the vessel. The typical composition of an IVUS image and the measurements of
observed structures have been shown to correlate well with histology and angioscopy
in several in vitro studies. The existing data on intravascular imaging of
the aorta are scant. In this study, the preliminary results of in-vitro IVUS examination
of human descending aorta morphology are presented, with reference
to the corresponding histological section.
Keywords: blood vesselmorphologyultrasound
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