CARDIOVASCULAR OCT IMAGING

OCT is rapidly being adopted in cardiology practice. However, gap exists between the speed of technology development and the knowledge of cardiologists. Many cardiologists are not familiar with image interpretation and don’t have enough background/knowledge to use the information in clinical practice. This book will be designed for busy interventional cardiologists to become quickly familiar with this emerging technology so that they can take advantage of its power improve patient care and outcome.
Feature
- Concise summary of available data on the use of OCT in cardiovascular imaging
- Focus on cardiology and the use of the technique within cardiovascular practice
- Easy application of the current data into clinical practice

Author
Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Cardiology Laboratory for Integrative Physiology and Imaging (CLIPI) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Jang came to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1987 from Leuven University in Belgium, where he has completed his residency in medicine and fellowship in cardiology. He also successfully defended his doctorate thesis at the same university under the supervision of Professor Desire Collen. After his advanced fellowship in cardiology at MGH, he joined the staff and is currently working as a Physician and an interventional cardiologist in the Cardiology Division. His research interest has been acute coronary syndromes including acute myocardial infarction. His earlier research focused on pharmacology and physiology of thrombosis and thrombolysis including thrombin hypothesis and platelet inhibition. For the last fifteen years he has pioneered the application of intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to patients to better characterize coronary plaques and to understand the mechanisms of plaque rupture. In 2010 Dr. Jang established an international OCT Registry, which has more than 2000 patients from 20 sites across 6 countries.

Table of contents (15 chapters)
1.The Development of OCT
2.Physics of Cardiovascular OCT
3.Histology Validation of OCT Images
4.Basic Interpretation Skills
5.Intravascular OCT Imaging Artifacts
6.Clinical Presentations and Coronary Plaque Characteristics
7.Insight into Pathogenesis of Acute Coronary Syndrome
8.Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
9.Early Stent Evaluation
10.Late Stent Change
11.Stent Thrombosis
12.Neoatherosclerosis
13.Bioabsorbable Stent
14.Consensus Documents
15.Future Development