Intravascular high frequency two-dimensional ultrasound detection of arterial dissection and intimal flaps

The anatomy of an arterial lesion has important prognostic and therapeutic implications. Current advances in interventional therapy for coronary and peripheral arterial disease have emphasized the need for more detailed morphologic information on the arterial anatomy than that derived from contrast angiography. Contrast arteriography can display dimensional narrowing of an artery. Other abnormalities such as atheromas, thrombi and dissections...