Fig. 6: IVFMI images of rabbit arteries acquired in vivo.
From: 3D cellular-resolution imaging in arteries using few-mode interferometry
a 3D reconstruction of atherosclerotic rabbit aorta. The white arrow indicates the guide wire. The blue and red arrows indicate atherosclerotic plaque regions. b Cross-sectional image of the lumen wall that contains normal aortic media tissue and the atheromatous lesion indicated by the blue arrow in (a). c Magnified image corresponding to the blue dashed region in (b). The yellow arrow demarcates a region containing smooth muscle cells embedded in a collagen network in a portion of the normal aortic wall, while the green arrow indicates an atherosclerotic plaque. d 3D reconstruction of a stent implanted in the iliac artery. The purple and red arrows indicate stent struts. e A cross-sectional image corresponding to the location indicated by the purple arrow in (d). Orange arrows highlight tiny, punctate, highly scattering features that are consistent with platelets around the stent strut (red arrow), with the green arrows indicating the artery wall. A Gaussian blur filter with a radius of 2 μm was applied to the cross-sectional IVFMI images. Scale bar: 100 μm.
