Automated intima-media thickness: The Los Angeles atherosclerosis study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 981-987

  Dwyer, James H ^a   Sun, Ping ^a   Kwong Fu, Helen ^b   Dwyer, Kathleen M ^a   Selzer, Robert H ^b  

^a Inst Hlth Prom Dis Prev Res   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Cerebrovascular disease; Coronary heart disease; Intima media thickness; Reproducibility; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY HEART DISEASE; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (IMT); REPRODUCIBILITY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; HUMAN; INTIMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUNICA INTIMA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032169345     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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