Does B-mode common carotid artery intima-media thickness differ from M-mode?

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1333-1336

  Van Bortel, Luc M ^a,b   Vanmolkot, Floris H ^a   Van der Heijden Spek, Janneke J ^a   Bregu, Marsel ^a   Staessen, Jan A ^c   Hoeks, Arnold P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arterial wall; Atherosclerosis; B mode; Common carotid artery; Diagnostic imaging; Intima media thickness; M mode

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CAROTID ARTERY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0035673795     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(01)00448-3     Document Type: Article

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