Healthy arteries are essential for our wellbeing and arterial disease, which causes them to harden, is behind several serious chronic conditions.
But could arterial disease be discovered early to head off conditions such as diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases?
Coventry University’s Centre for Intelligent Healthcare (CIH) is trying to answer that question with new equipment and techniques that could be used for microvascular imaging – generating pictures of the body’s smallest blood vessels.
