Vulnerable plaque detection: an unrealistic quest or a feasible objective with a clinical value?

Christos V Bourantas; Hector M Garcia-Garcia; Ryo Torii; Yao-Jun Zhang; Mark Westwood; Tom Crake; Patrick W Serruys

doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2015-309060

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Vulnerable plaque detection: an unrealistic quest or a feasible objective with a clinical value?

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Christos V Bourantas Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University College London, London, UK Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Hector M Garcia-Garcia Department of Interventional Cardiology, Erasmus MC, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ryo Torii Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Yao-Jun Zhang Department of Cardiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mark Westwood Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tom Crake Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Patrick W Serruys Department of Interventional Cardiology, Erasmus MC, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Christos V Bourantas, Department of Cardiology, The Barts Heart Centre, London EC1A 7BE, UK; cbourantas{at}gmail.com

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Bourantas CV, Garcia-Garcia HM, Torii R, et al

Vulnerable plaque detection: an unrealistic quest or a feasible objective with a clinical value?

Heart 2016;102:581-589.

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Received November 21, 2015
Revised December 12, 2015
Accepted December 14, 2015
First published January 18, 2016.

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March 24, 2016

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