“…In vivo obstacles to FLIm involving pulsatile flow and the presence of blood have been overcome with the use of a catheter-based flushing system [ 15 ]. Moreover, a fiber-based implementation is compatible with optical coherent tomography [ 7 , 10 , 16 ] and intravascular ultrasound [ 15 , 18 , 19 ], which can be used to obtain simultaneous structural information of the tissue under examination.…”