Assessment of carotid elasticity during exercise: A Reproducibility study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-230

  Bianchini, Elisabetta ^a   Bruno, Rosa Maria ^b   Corciu, Anca Irina ^a   Faita, Francesco ^a   Gemignani, Vincenzo ^a   Ghiadoni, Lorenzo ^b   Picano, Eugenio ^a   Sicari, Rosa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotid elasticity; Carotid stiffness; Exercise; Reproducibility; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; B-MODE IMAGES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CYCLE ERGOMETER; EXERCISE; INTRA-CLASS COEFFICIENT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; RECOVERY; ULTRASONICS;

ELASTICITY;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; B SCAN; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY MASS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REST; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84855482391     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.10.023     Document Type: Article

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