In vivo measurement of plaque neovascularisation and thermal heterogeneity in intermediate lesions of human carotid arteries

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 1716-1721

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Drakopoulou, Maria ^a   Aggeli, Constantina ^a   Nikolaou, Charalampia ^a   Felekos, Ioannis ^a   Grassos, Haralampos ^a   Synetos, Andreas ^a   Stathogiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Karanasos, Antonis ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Siores, Elias ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAROTID STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84869172772     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302507     Document Type: Article

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