Tangential Signal Dropout Mimicking the Appearance of Lipid-rich Plaques and Macrophage Infiltration on Optical Frequency Domain Imaging
Aims: This study evaluated the optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) artifact of tangential signal dropout (TSD), which mimics the appearance of lipid-rich plaque and macrophage (Mø) infiltration. Methods and results: A total of 1,019 histological cross-sections from 23 autopsy hearts were matched with the corresponding OFDI images. Of those, 232 OFDI cross-sections that contained signal-poor regions with diffuse borders were classified as lipid-rich plaques. The angle θ was calculated between the OFDI beam that strikes the edge of the luminal surface of the low-intensity region and that which strikes the surface line of the low-intensity region. On histological evaluation, 182 ...
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