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Muthukaruppan Gnanadesigan1, Gijs van Soest1, Stephen White2, Simon Scoltock2, Giovanni J Ughi3, Andreas Baumbach2, Antonius Fw van der Steen4, Evelyn Regar1, Thomas W Johnson2.
Abstract
Atherosclerotic plaque composition can be imaged using the optical attenuation coefficient derived from intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) data. The relation between optical properties and tissue type has been established on autopsy tissues. In this study, we validate an ex-vivo model for the effect of temperature and tissue fixation on optical parameters. We studied the optical attenuation of human coronary arteries at three temperatures, before and after formalin fixation. We developed an en-face longitudinal display of attenuation data of the OCT pullbacks. Using the unfixed, body-temperature condition image as a standard, and after extensive registration with other condition images, we quantify the differences in optical attenuation and the backscattered intensity. The results suggest that tissue fixation and temperature do not introduce systematic errors in studies of arterial optical properties.Entities:
Keywords: (110.2960) Image analysis; (170.3010) Image reconstruction techniques; (170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (170.4500) Optical coherence tomography
Year: 2014 PMID: 24761287 PMCID: PMC3985992 DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.001038
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Opt Express ISSN: 2156-7085 Impact factor: 3.732