Vascular Ultrasound, 2003

Intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) plays very important roles in clinical cardiology. This book describes the newest advances in vascular ultrasound imaging and the surrounding technologies for high frequency vascular ultrasound imaging. Most important topics of the book are technical applications of IVUS (elasticity imaging, chromaflow...) and the basic data (vibration, acoustic microscopy) that should provide very important information to understand clinical IVUS imaging.

1: Introduction to Vascular Ultrasound.- What Do Cardiologists Want from Vascular Ultrasound?.- What Pathologists Want from Vascular Ultrasound.- What Vascular Surgeons Want from Vascular Ultrasound.- 2: The Technical Potential of IVUS.- History and Principles.- High Frequency IVUS.- Quantitative IVUS Flow Estimation.- Intravascular Elastography: From Idea to Clinical Tool.- 3D ICUS.- Coronary 3-D Angiography, 3-D Ultrasound and Their Fusion.- Shear Stress and the IVUS Derived Vessel Wall Thickness.- 3: Clinical Applications of IVUS.- What Have We Leamed from 10 Years Peripheral Intravascular Ultrasound?.- Intra-Coronary Ultrasound to Guide Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.- Detection of Vulnerable Coronary Plaque; The Emerging Role of Intravascular Ultrasound.- Diagnosis of Vulnerable Plaques in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.- 4: Carotid Scanning.- Conventional and Compound Scanning of the Carotid Artery.- 3D Imaging of the Carotid Arteries.- Carotid Elasticity Measurements.- Cross-Sectional Imaging of Elasticity Around Atherosclerotic Plaque with Transcutaneous Ultrasound.- 5: Acoustic Microscopy of Vascular Tissue.- Quantitative Backscatter Acoustic Microscopy (30 to 50MHz).- Evaluation of Atherosclerosis by Acoustic Microscopy.- Key Word Index.