Brett E. Bouma

TL;DR: OCT achieves high-resolution and image differentiation of vascular tissues to a degree that has not been previously possible with any method except excisional biopsy as mentioned in this paper, thus, OCT represents a promising new diagnostic technology for intracoronary imaging.

TL;DR: The past decade has seen dramatic technological advances in the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, and its exciting potential to translate to the clinic as a tool for monitoring cancer therapy is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply various speckle-reduction digital filters to optical coherence tomography images and compare their performance, showing that shift-invariant, nonorthogonal wavelet-transform-based filters together with enhanced Lee and adaptive Wiener filters can significantly reduce speckble and increase the signal-to-noise ratio, while preserving strong edges.

TL;DR: Within the penetration depth of OCT, OCT has a best potential for tissue characterization of coronary plaques and Integrated backscatter IVUS has a better potential for characterizing fibrous lesions and lipid pools than C-IVUS.

TL;DR: In this article, a method, apparatus and arrangement can be provided for obtaining information associated with a sample such as a portion of an anatomical structure, where information can be generated using first data, which can be based on a signal obtained from a location on the sample, and second data can be obtained by combining a second signal received from the sample with a third reference signal.