OCT imaging of macrophages: a bright spot in the study of inflammation in human atherosclerosis

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: gtearney@partners.org.

Editorial

Guillermo J Tearney. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jan.

. 2015 Jan;8(1):73-75.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.09.019. Epub 2014 Nov 5.

¹ Harvard Medical School, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: gtearney@partners.org.

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Keywords: intravascular imaging; macrophage; optical coherence tomography; vulnerable plaque.

Comment on

Macrophages and intravascular OCT bright spots: a quantitative study.
Phipps JE, Vela D, Hoyt T, Halaney DL, Mancuso JJ, Buja LM, Asmis R, Milner TE, Feldman MD. Phipps JE, et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jan;8(1):63-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.07.027. Epub 2014 Nov 5. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015. PMID: 25499133 Free PMC article.