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Cardiovascular devices: Potent angioscopy for weak plaques

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A new endoscope provides high-resolution structural and biochemical videos of human atherosclerotic plaques.

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Figure 1: Invasive imaging of vulnerable plaques.
Figure 2: Ex vivo imaging of a complicated plaque in a carotid artery.

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  1. Héctor M. Garcia-Garcia, Viana Azizi and Alexandre Hideo Kajita are at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and MedStar Health Research Institute, 110 Irving Street NW, Washington DC 20010, USA.,

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Garcia-Garcia, H., Azizi, V. & Kajita, A. Cardiovascular devices: Potent angioscopy for weak plaques. Nat Biomed Eng 1, 0035 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-017-0035

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