Cardiovascular OCT Imaging

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Development of OCT

   • James G. Fujimoto, Joseph M. Schmitt, Eric A. Swanson, Ik-Kyung Jang

   Pages 1-21

3. Physics of Cardiovascular OCT

   • Martin L. Villiger, Brett E. Bouma

   Pages 23-38

4. Histology Validation of OCT Images

   • Teruyoshi Kume, Takashi Kubo, Takashi Akasaka

   Pages 39-51

5. Basic Interpretation Skills

   • Tom Adriaenssens

   Pages 53-66

6. Intravascular OCT Imaging Artifacts

   • Jennifer E. Phipps, Taylor Hoyt, David L. Halaney, J. Jacob Mancuso, Thomas E. Milner, Marc D. Feldman

   Pages 67-79

7. Clinical Presentations and Coronary Plaque Characteristics

   • Rocco Vergallo, Ik-Kyung Jang

   Pages 81-97

8. Insight into Pathogenesis of Acute Coronary Syndrome

   • Haibo Jia, Ik-Kyung Jang

   Pages 99-117

9. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

   • Karl Poon

   Pages 119-128

10. Early Stent Evaluation

    • Soo-Jin Kang, Seung-Jung Park

    Pages 129-136

11. Late Stent Change

    • Jung-Sun Kim, Myeong-Ki Hong, Yangsoo Jang

    Pages 137-146

12. Stent Thrombosis

    • Giulio Guagliumi, Chiara Bernelli, Kenichi Komukai, Vasile Sirbu

    Pages 147-165

13. Neoatherosclerosis

    • Shiro Uemura

    Pages 167-177

14. Bioabsorbable Stent

    • Nienke Simone van Ditzhuijzen, Antonios Karanasos, Jors Nicolaas van der Sijde, Gijs van Soest, Evelyn Regar

    Pages 179-193

15. Consensus Documents

    • Luca Di Vito, Valeria Marco, Mario Albertucci, Francesco Prati

    Pages 195-201

16. Future Development

    • Joseph M. Schmitt, Desmond C. Adler, Chenyang Xu

    Pages 203-216

17. Back Matter

    Pages 217-222

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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.

• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Cardiac Ultrasound
• Coronary Artery Dissection
• Neoatherosclerosis
• Stent Thrombosis
• atherosclerosis
• cardiology
• fractional flow reserve
• optical coherence tomography
• percutaneous coronary intervention
• Diagnostic Radiology

“This text is a guide to cardiovascular use of optical coherence tomography (OCT). … The book contains 15 chapters with a useful index, occupying 222 pages and including numerous representative illustrations. … Although this volume is mainly addressed to interventional cardiologists, providing background and useful hints, we recommend this fascinating book to all clinicians interested in vascular biology to improve their understanding of the role and evolution of high-risk plaque in the pathogenesis of acute coronary syndrome.” (Valeria Gaudieri and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 43, 2016)

“This book provides an all-encompassing overview of cardiovascular OCT imaging - from a historical perspective to projections about future uses of this exciting technology. … The intended audience is interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular researchers. … This book does a great job of covering both the basic and the complex facets of OCT. The text is concise and well focused.” (Evan S. Jacobs, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)

• Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  Ik-Kyung Jang

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 CoherenceTomography (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.

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