Manual B-Mode Versus Automated Radio-Frequency Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Measurements

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1137-1144

  Dogan, Soner ^a   Plantinga, Yvonne ^a   Dijk, Joke M ^b   van der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated radiofrequency method; Automated wall thickness detection; Carotid intima media thickness; Manual B mode ultrasound; Methodology; Radiofrequency ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTIMA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; STROKE; THICKNESS; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIO WAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUNICA INTIMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349432221     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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