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Ultrasound guided therapeutic catheters: recent developments and clinical results

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The increasing use of intravascular ultrasound technology by clinicians is providing detailed and immediate information about the results of interventions, and this is stimulating the development of new catheters that use ultrasound imaging to control therapy in real time. Cold and thermal balloon angioplasty, atherectomy, embolectomy, laser ablation and rotational recanalization are a few of the interesting capabilities now being added to ultrasound catheters. We report on the development and characteristics of some of these devices and attempt to assess their potential to precisely direct therapy.

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    R. J. Crowley M.Sc., M. A. Hamm, S. H. Joshi, C. D. Lennox & G. T. Roberts

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Crowley, R.J., Hamm, M.A., Joshi, S.H. et al. Ultrasound guided therapeutic catheters: recent developments and clinical results. Int J Cardiac Imag 6, 145–156 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01797847

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