Author(s):
Jelmer Westra,
Shengxian Tu
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3 years ago
Physiological lesion assessment is recommended for the identification of intermediate coronary lesions that might benefit from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).1 The quantitative flow ratio (QFR) was developed to derive coronary physiology from angiographic images, whereas the optical flow ratio (OFR) is a more recent approach for the rapid and automated assessment of coronary physiology…
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Dr Shengxian Tu, PhD, FACC, FESC is Professor of biomedical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China.Dr Tu received his PhD at the Leiden University Medical Center with cum laude. He is the inventor of both QFR and OFR techniques that allow for fast computation of fractional flow reserve from X-ray angiography and intracoronary optical coherence tomography, respectively.
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Dr LorenzRäber is an interventional cardiologist at Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on coronary heart disease, optical coherence tomography and infrared spectroscopy.
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Job title: Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Nieves Gonzalo is Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Interventional Cardiology Department at Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid.
She obtained her Specialist Certification in Cardiology after training at Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid. Subsequently, she underwent a research fellowship at Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)…
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Job title: Head of Invasive Imaging
Dr van Soest is an experimental physicist by training (MSc Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1997). In 2005 he joined the Biomedical Engineering group of the Thorax Center at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL. Starting a new research topic in optical imaging and taking on the existing research in intravascular ultrasound, he developed his own research line. He became a member of the…
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Author(s):
Alexander G Truesdell,
Matheen A Khuddus,
Sara C Martinez,et al
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3 years ago
“When you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.”
– Coach John Wooden
Ongoing technological and procedural innovations increasingly permit the safe and effective performance of ever more high-risk and complex percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in the modern cardiac catheterization laboratory. Anatomic characteristics of higher risk include unprotected distal left main stenosis,…
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Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Hector Garcia-Garcia is director of angiographic, intravascular ultrasound, optical coherence tomography and near infrared spectroscopy imaging at the Cardiovascular Core Laboratory, MedStar Cardiovascular Research Network, MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC). He is also chairman of the Clinical Event committee and an attending cardiologist at MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, MWHC.
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Job title: Head of the Preclinical Research
Dr Michael Joner MD completed his medical training at the University of Wuerzburg and spent 2004-2006 as a cardiovascular pathology fellow at the CVPath Institute.
After returning to Germany, since 2007 Dr Joner has been Head of the Preclinical Research at the German Heart Centre in Munich, where he also completed his interventional cardiology residency.
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