New Cardiac Catheter Combines Light and Ultrasound to Measure Plaques (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

New Cardiac Catheter Combines Light and Ultrasound to Measure Plaques

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Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have combined intravascular ultrasound with fluorescence lifetime imaging in a single catheter probe that can image the tiny arteries of a living heart. The new catheter can simultaneously retrieve structural and biochemical information about arterial plaque that could more reliably predict heart attacks.

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Marcu Lab/UC Davis

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