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Clinical Intracoronary Ultrasound

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Coronary Radiology

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Catheter-based intracoronary imaging produces real-time high resolution cross-sectional tomographic images from lumen and vessel wall.

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Ligthart, J., de Feyter, P.J. (2004). Clinical Intracoronary Ultrasound. In: Oudkerk, M. (eds) Coronary Radiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06419-1_4

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