Laser-Based Camera Improves View of the Carotid Artery (IMAGE)

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Laser-Based Camera Improves View of the Carotid Artery

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Scanning fiber angioscopic images with red reflectance for structural images (left) and blue fluorescence for label-free biochemical contrast (right). Images demonstrate multiple atherosclerotic lesions with very low fluorescence in the blue spectrum in comparison to the surrounding healthy artery.

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