Podcast: Precision Intracoronary Imaging Software Powers Understanding of Optical Coherence Tomograp
A conversation between Karen Jagoda of Empowered Patient Podcasts and Dr. Nick West is the Chief Medical Officer and DVP Global Medical Affairs for Vascular at Abbott.
With the launch of the Ultreon software 1.0, Abbott is bringing a new level of analysis to their Optical Coherence Tomography intracoronary imaging tool.
Nick explains, "And the idea of this software package is, on top of this best-in-class in terms of resolution imaging technology to help physicians, the Ultreon software augments physician decision-making to effectively enable them to do a better job, but more easily."
"Optical Coherence Tomography already existed. A very powerful tool, as I said. A very high degree of precision and accuracy in measurement. However, one of the issues with OCT is that, as well as understanding how to actually physically use the catheter, which is reasonably straightforward, it's very similar to other devices that interventional cardiologists use, but they then have to learn to interpret the images you get out. So acquiring the pictures is relatively straightforward, but then how do you interpret these detailed pictures?"