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Optical Biopsy

  • March 2006
  • By Neil Savage

A new imaging technique can spot potential clots in arteries.

   

Current heart-imaging techniques can identify arterial plaques, but they can't distinguish stable plaques from unstable ones likely to break off and cause clots.

A relatively new laser imaging technology called optical-coherence tomography, on the other hand, can.

[For an image from this new imaging technology, click here.]

 

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