Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Coronary disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and the Western world and approximately 250,000 affected people die per year without being admitted to the hospital. One of the main reasons of such a high death rate without any diagnostics in more than 50% of myocardial infarctions (MIs or heart attacks) occur in patients with no prior history of heart attack disease or symptoms. Coronary artery disease leads to the occlusion of arteries that are vital in providing nutrients to the heart muscles. The disease develops by progressive accumulation or formation of 'plaque' within an artery. Certain types of arteries could occlude blood flow and yet might be 'stable'. These plaques usually have high fibrous content and are known as hard plaques. On the other hand, 'unstable or soft plaques' might not cause much occlusion but could be venerable to rupture. Rupture of such plaques could lead to total or partial occlusion in arteries resulting in sudden cardiac death or heart attack. In fact, 68% of the MIs are caused by rupture of plaques when coronary arteries are less than 50% occluded. This book is about plaque imaging covering both clinical and imaging aspects of plaque using Magnetic Resonance (MR), Computer Tomography (CT), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Elastography and at Molecular/Microscopic levels.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (488 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781607501169
Series Statement:
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Series ; v.113
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=265936
Language:
English
Note:
Title page -- Preface -- The Editors -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Contents -- Plaque Imaging Using Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance and Computer Tomography: A Review -- Medical Image Retrieval Based on Plaque Appearance and Image Registration -- MRI Plaque Tissue Characterization and Assessment of Plaque Stability -- Intravascular Ultrasound Elastography: A Clinician's Tool for Assessing Vulnerability and Material Composition of Plaques -- Computer Vision Analysis of Collagen Fiber Bundles in the Adventitia of Human Blood Vessels -- Image Based Biomechanics of Coronary Plaque -- Computed Tomographic Cardiovascular Imaging -- Tomographic Plaque Imaging with CT -- Absolute Measurement of Integrated Backscatter from Arterial Wall Structures -- Ultrasound Imaging in the Analysis of Carotid Plaque Morphology for the Assessment of Stroke -- On the Assessment of Texture Feature Descriptors in Intravascular Ultrasound Images: A Boosting Approach to a Feasible Plaque Classification -- Real-Time Plaque Characterization and Visualization with Spectral Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound Data -- Coronary Plaque Analysis by Multimodality Fusion -- Imaging of Plaque Cellular Activity with Contrast Enhanced MRI -- Inter- and Intra-Observer Variability Assessment of in Vivo Carotid Plaque Burden Quantification Using Multi-Contrast Dark Blood MR Images -- Three-Dimensional Volume Registration of Carotid MR Images -- Characterization of Shear Stress on the Wall of the Carotid Artery Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics -- Numerical Modeling of Coronary Drug Eluting Stents -- Author Index.
