Repeatability and reproducibility of ultrasonographic measurement of carotid intima thickness

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-84

  Lau, Kar Ho ^a   Fung, Ying Keung ^a   Cheung, Yuk Ting ^a   Tsang, Wing Keung ^a   Ying, Michael ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Intima thickness; Repeatability; Reproducibility; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 84855615009     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20906     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Lim TK, Lim E, Dwivedi G, et al. Normal value of carotid intima-media thickness-a surrogate marker of atherosclerosis: quantitative assessment by B-mode carotid ultrasound. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2008; 21: 112.
2. Eigenbrodt ML, Bursac Z, Tracy RE, et al. B-mode ultrasound common carotid artery intima-media thickness and external diameter: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with carotid atherosclerosis in a large population sample. Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2008; 6: 10.
3. Baldassarre D, Amato M, Bondioli A, et al. Carotid artery intima-media thickness measured by ultrasonography in normal clinical practice correlates well with atherosclerosis risk factors. Stroke 2000; 31: 2426.
4. Griffin M, Nicolaides A, Tyllis T, et al. Carotid and femoral arterial wall changes and the prevalence of clinical cardiovascular disease. Vasc Med 2009; 14: 227.
5. Rodriguez-Macias KA, Lind L, Naessen T. Thicker carotid intima layer and thinner media layer in subjects with cardiovascular diseases. An investigation using noninvasive high-frequency ultrasound. Atherosclerosis 2006; 189: 393.
6. Choi YS, Youn HJ, Youn JS, et al. Measurement of the intimal thickness of the carotid artery: comparison between 40 MHz ultrasound and histology in rats. Ultrasound Med Biol 2009; 35: 962.
7. Bae JH, Kim WS, Rihal CS, et al. Individual measurement and significance of carotid intima, media, and intima-media thickness by B-mode ultrasonographic image processing. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2006; 26: 2380.
8. Liu KH, Chan YL, Chan JC, et al. Association of carotid intima-media thickness with mesenteric, preperitoneal and subcutaneous fat thickness. Atherosclerosis 2005; 179: 299.
9. So NM, Lam WW, Chook P, et al. Carotid intima-media thickness in patients with head and neck irradiation for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Clin Radiol 2002; 57: 600.
10. Potter K, Reed CJ, Green DJ, et al. Ultrasound settings significantly alter arterial lumen and wall thickness measurements. Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2008; 6: 6.
11. Portney LG, Watkins MP. Foundations of clinical research: applications to practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education; 2009. 585 p.
12. Wong M, Edelstein J, Wollman J, et al. Ultrasonic-pathological comparison of the human arterial wall. Verification of intima-media thickness. Arterioscler Thromb 1993; 13: 482.
13. Loizou CP, Pantziaris M, Pattichis MS, et al. Ultrasound image texture analysis of the intima and media layers of the common carotid artery and its correlation with age and gender. Comput Med Imaging Graph 2009; 33: 317.
14. Loizou CP, Pattichis CS, Nicolaides AN, et al. Manual and automated media and intima thickness measurements of the common carotid artery. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2009; 56: 983.
15. Kazmierski R, Niezgoda A, Guzik P, et al. An evaluation of the reproducibility of the measurement of the intima-media thickness of carotid arteries. Folia Morphol (Warsz) 2003; 62: 25.
16. Gonzalez J, Wood JC, Dorey FJ, et al. Reproducibility of carotid intima-media thickness measurements in young adults. Radiology 2008; 247: 465.