First in vivo application of microwave radiometry in human carotids: A new noninvasive method for detection of local inflammatory activation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1645-1653

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Grassos, Charalampos ^a   Drakopoulou, Maria ^a   Synetos, Andreas ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Stathogiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Klettas, Dimitrios ^a   Kavantzas, Nikolaos ^b   Agrogiannis, Georgios ^b   Patsouris, Efstratios ^b   Klonaris, Christos ^c   Liasis, Nikolaos ^a   Tousoulis, Dimitrios ^a   Siores, Elias ^d   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid stenosis; diagnosis; inflammation; microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860272854     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.01.033     Document Type: Article

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