Journal: Langmuir

Article Title: Ultrathin Durable Organic Hydrophobic Coatings Enhancing Dropwise Condensation Heat Transfer

doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01477

Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Schematic of the iCVD tool used to deposit the PFDA polymer coating on copper substrates. (b) Advancing contact angle and contact angle hysteresis (inset) of water droplets on hydrophobic copper substrates.

Article Snippet: Post-TCVS coating, we utilized the iCVD tool (iLab Coating System, GVD Corporation) to deposit an ultrathin layer of 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyl acrylate (PFDA; 97%, with tert-butylcatechol as an inhibitor, Sigma-Aldrich) as a monomer in the presence of tert-butyl peroxide (TBPO; 98%, Sigma-Aldrich) as an initiator.

Techniques: Polymer

Journal: Oxford Medical Case Reports

Article Title: Direct ICE imaging from inside the left atrial appendage during ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation

doi: 10.1093/omcr/omx079

Figure Lengend Snippet: Intracardiac echocardiography using the Ultra ICE Boston Scientific ultrasound system. 1 A . Intracardiac echocardiographic imaging from inside the left atrial appendage. The ICE catheter in the middle of the image. The transducer images in a plane radial to the tip. The 360° acoustic arc of the ultrasound catheter produces a cross-sectional image of the LAA. The measured area of LAA is 3.82 cm 2 . Contractions of the appendage are clearly displayed in the lower part of the Figure A with the help of yellow arrows. 1 B . Intracardiac echocardiographic imagind during transseptal puncture. The transseptal needle is inside the right atrium, tenting the fossa ovalis and pushing it into the left atrium. White arrow: BRK transseptal needle against the interatrial septum. Yellow arrow: ICE catheter in the middle of the image. LA, left atrium; RA, right atrium.

Article Snippet: The procedure was performed with the help of NAVX 3D mapping system (Saint Jude Medical) and iLAB Ultra ICE Plus ultrasound imaging catheter (Boston Scientific).

Techniques: Imaging

Journal: Biomedicines

Article Title: High Fidelity Pressure Wires Provide Accurate Validation of Non-Invasive Central Blood Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity Measurements

doi: 10.3390/biomedicines11041235

Figure Lengend Snippet: Screenshots of the recordings with the iLab (Boston Scientific) of the FFR pressure wire (Pd) in blue and the fluid-filled pressure (Pa) in red in 3 different patients. The pressure wire was equalized in the guiding catheter left in the ascending aorta, so that its mean value equals the mean fluid-filled pressure, resulting in an FFR value of 1. The lower right panel demonstrates a clearly underdamped system with many oscillation artefacts, while the timing of the feet of the Pa and Pd pressure waves is the same for these patients.

Article Snippet: On the digitalized signals, as well as on the iLab FFR monitor from Boston Scientific, we could visualize oscillations that were sometimes important on the FF catheter signals, associated with suboptimal damping as shown in .

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Journal: The Egyptian Heart Journal

Article Title: Tissue characterization of non-culprit intermediate coronary lesions in non ST elevation acute coronary syndromes

doi: 10.1016/j.ehj.2017.05.003

Figure Lengend Snippet: Quantitative IVUS measurements of intermediate lesions structure.

Article Snippet: We used intravascular ultrasound iLab TM System 1.2 Ultrasound Imaging System 90539386-01A, 2009 – Boston Scientific Corporation – USA.

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