Preliminary in vivo atherosclerotic carotid plaque characterization using the accumulated axial strain and relative lateral shift strain indices

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6377-6394

  Shi, Hairong ^a   Mitchell, Carol C ^b   McCormick, Matthew ^a,c   Kliewer, Mark A ^b   Dempsey, Robert J ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DEFORMATION; ULTRASONICS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES; AXIAL STRAINS; CARDIAC CYCLES; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMIES; CAROTID PLAQUES; CLINICAL UTILITIES; IN-VIVO; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LATERAL SHIFTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; STRAIN INDICES; TWO PARAMETERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; VESSEL WALLS; VULNERABLE PLAQUES;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCREENING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 58149231355     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/22/008     Document Type: Article

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