History of atherosclerosis and vulnerable plaque research / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- The pathology of vulnerable plaque / Renu Virmani ... [et al.] -- Plaque rupture / Renu Virmani ... [et al.] -- Plaque erosion / Frank D. Kolodgie ... [et al.] -- Pathogenesis and significance of calcification in coronary atherosclerosis / Allen P. Burke ... [et al.] -- Adventitial and periadventitial fat inflammation and plaque vulnerability / Silvio Litovsky ... [et al.] -- Murine models of advanced atherosclerosis / Michael E. Rosenfeld & Stephen M. Schwartz -- Triggers for plaque rupture: physical and mechanical stress / Luis E. Rohde & Richard T. Lee -- Inflammation and matrix metalloproteinases / Zorina S. Galis & Susan M. Lessner -- Apoptosis in atherosclerosis / Mark M. Kockx, Wim Martinet, & Michiel Knaapen -- Emerging biomarkers of instability / Sotirios Tsimikas -- Ultrasonic detection of coronary disease / Mani A. Vannan ... [et al.] -- Intravascular ultrasound for plaque characterization / D. Geoffrey Vince & Anuja Nair --
Magnetic resonance imaging and intravascular magnetic resonance imaging / Hee Kwon Song ... [et al.] -- Radionuclide imaging / Johan Verjans & Jagat Narula -- Near-infrared spectroscopy / Pedro R. Moreno, Barbara Marshik & James E. Muller -- Intravascular thermography / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- Optical coherence tomography / Paul Magnin & Evelyn Regar -- Intravascular palpography / Johannes A. Schaar ... [et al.] -- Coronary computed tomography for the detection of atherosclerotic plaque burden / Allen J. Taylor & Irwin M. Feuerstein -- New developments in treatment of vulnerable plaques / Mohammad Madjid ... [et al.] -- Photodynamic therapy / Ron Waksman & Pauline E. McEwan -- Thermal stabilization of vulnerable plaques / Samuel Ward Casscells ... [et al.] -- An interventionalist's perspective / Aloke V. Finn, Ronald Waksman & Herman Gold -- Genetic modulation of vulnerable plaques / Chunming Dong & Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont