Direct Measurement of Wall Stiffness for Carotid Arteries by Ultrasound Strain Imaging

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1389-1395

  Kawasaki, Toshihiro ^a   Fukuda, Shota ^a   Shimada, Kenei ^a   Maeda, Kumiko ^a   Yoshida, Ken ^a   Sunada, Hiroe ^a   Inanami, Hitoshi ^a   Tanaka, Hidemasa ^a   Jissho, Satoshi ^a   Taguchi, Haruyuki ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a  

^a Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; Coronary artery disease; Strain rate imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; STRAIN RATE IMAGING; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70450277203     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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