In vitro and in vivo studies on thermistor‐based intracoronary temperature measurements: Effect of pressure and flow

Intracoronary thermography has been proposed to detect vulnerable plaques. We hypothesized that changes in coronary pressure and flow in the coronarytree may interfere with the temperature measurements obtained with thermistors.

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