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Optical Coherence
Tomography: Optical Biopsy
with a Short Photonic
Needle?
I.K. Jang, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
The 3rd
Vulnerable Plaque Symposium
Atlanta, March 16, 2002
Optical Coherence
Tomography
• Optical analog of ultrasound
• Cross-sectional imaging
• 10 µm resolution
• 2 mm penetration depth
Low signal High signal
MGH OCT
System Technical
Data
Optical wavelength :
Image acquisition rate :
Catheter:
Axial Resolution :
Transverse Resolution :
Data storage :
1300 nm
4-8 images / sec
3.0 F
10 µm
25 µm
Digital
Ex Vivo Study
Aim
Establish OCT criteria for plaque
characterization
Materials and Methods
• 357 arterial segments from 90 cadavers
– 78 Coronary; 86 Carotid; 143 Aorta
• training set, n=50
validation set, n = 307
• Specimen registration
• OCT imaging
• Histology processing
• Correlation of OCT with histology
Ex Vivo Study
Type Number
Fibrous 11 (22%)
Calcific 27 (54%)
Lipid pool 12 (24%)
Type Number
Fibrous 67 (22%)
Calcific 167 (54%)
Lipid pool 73 (24%)
Validation Set (n = 307)Training Set (n = 50)
Histologic Diagnoses
OCT Characteristics
lp
lp
Homogeneous,
Signal-rich
Fibrous Lipid
Echolucent,
Diffuse Borders
Echolucent,
Sharp Borders
Calcific
500 µm
Intimal Hyperplasia
Low signal High signal
Fibrous Plaque
F
I
M
A
F
EEL
IEL
lp
n
lp
Lipid-Rich Plaque
(with neovascularization)
Calcific Plaque
C
C
Ex Vivo Study Results
SENS .87 PPV .88
SPEC .97 NPV .96
SENS .95 PPV 1.0
SPEC 1.0 NPV .95
SENS .92 PPV .81
SPEC .94 NPV .97
Accuracy Statistics
Fibrous
Calcific
Lipid pool
Interobserver κ = 0.88, Intraobserver κ = 0.91
Clinical Study 1
Feasibility and Safety:
Pre and Post PCI
Pilot Human Study
Aim: Test feasibility and safety of OCT in
patients
Methods
• 10 patients (average age 59, 8M/2F)
• Coronary angiogrpahy
• IVUS + OCT imaging (3.2 F catheter)
• PCI
• Repeat IVUS + OCT Imaging
Fibrous Plaque
Fibrous Plaque
Lipid-rich Plaque
Lipid Rich Plaque
g
lplp
f
g
2x
m
a
i
iel eel
f
OCT IVUS
Fibrous Plaque with Calcium
Fibrous Plaque with Calcium
Post balloon Dissection
Cutting balloon
Stent
Stent
Stent
Pilot Human Study Results
 No OCT related complications
 Variety of pathology imaged and
compared with IVUS
• 10 patients with 28 plaque segments
• 8 dissections
• 13 stent locations
 Problems
• Obstruction by blood
• Motion artifacts
Acknowledgements
Massachusetts General Hospital
Cardiology Division
H. Yabushita, B. MacNeill, H. Lowe, M. Hayashi, S. Clarke, E. Pomerantsev,
D. DeJoseph, I.K. Jang
Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine
B.E. Bouma, M. Shishkov, C. Kauffman, N. Iftima, G.J. Tearney
Dept. of Pathology
S. Houser, H.T. Aretz
CIMIT
J. Muller, T. Brady, J. Rosen
Guidant Corporation
D. Kilpatrick, J. Ellis, R. Jones, T. Linnemeier

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  1. To date, there are two MGH prototype systems, with another under construction. All optics and electronics reside within a portable enclosure that can easily be transported to the clinical site. A photograph of one the the MGH OCT systems is shown in the upper right hand corner of this slide. A videoendoscopy image, present in the lower right hand corner of this slide, shows the typical view of the OCT catheter protruding through the accessory port. Light emanates from the OCT catheter in a direction that is perpendicular to the axis of the endoscope. The beam scans along the side of the hollow organ in a linear fashion.