It is now more than two decades since Nico Pijls and Bernard DeBruyne introduced fractional flow reserve (FFR) as a way to assess stenosis severity in the catheterization laboratory and since Paul Yock invented gray...It is now more than two decades since Nico Pijls and Bernard DeBruyne introduced fractional flow reserve (FFR) as a way to assess stenosis severity in the catheterization laboratory and since Paul Yock invented grayscale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) that then spawned many second-generation intravascular imaging techniques such as (1) Virtual histology-IVUS (VH-IVUS) that uses both amplitude and radiofrequency ultrasound information to classify plaque as necrotic core,展开更多
文摘It is now more than two decades since Nico Pijls and Bernard DeBruyne introduced fractional flow reserve (FFR) as a way to assess stenosis severity in the catheterization laboratory and since Paul Yock invented grayscale intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) that then spawned many second-generation intravascular imaging techniques such as (1) Virtual histology-IVUS (VH-IVUS) that uses both amplitude and radiofrequency ultrasound information to classify plaque as necrotic core,