Variability of carotid artery measurements on 3-Tesla MRI and its impact on sample size calculation for clinical research

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 581-589

  Syed, Mushabbar A ^a   Oshinski, John N ^b   Kitchen, Charles ^b   Ali, Arshad ^b   Charnigo, Richard J ^c   Quyyumi, Arshed A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla; Carotidartery; MRI; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 67849099129     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-009-9468-8     Document Type: Article

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