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2020年7月31日—IVUShasaresolutionof100μmwithahightissuepenetrationandcapabilityofassessingtheentirestructureofacoronaryarteryincludingthe ...

The history of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) started with the first coronary balloon angioplasty performed by Andreas Grüntzig in 1977 (1). In parallel with the remarkable evolution of PCI and the development of drug-eluting stents (DESs), the performance of intravascular imaging devices has been also improved. Figure 1[1] summarizes the history of both interventional cardiology and intravascular imaging devices. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), as the first intravascular imaging device, was introduced by Yock et al. in the 1980s (2). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was introduced a few years later in the 1990s (3, 4). Although the two devices have the same basic principles and visualize the intracoronary structures by reconstructing images from signal waves scattered back from the vessel wall to the catheter, t...