Quantitative Analysis of Ultrasound Contrast Flow Behavior in Carotid Plaque Neovasculature

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2072-2083

  Hoogi, Assaf ^a,b   Akkus, Zeynettin ^a   van den Oord, Stijn C H ^a   ten Kate, Gerrit L ^a   Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   Bosch, Johan G ^a   de Jong, Nico ^a   Adam, Dan ^b   van der Steen, Antonius F W ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Contrast ultrasound; Dynamic programming; Neovascularization; Quantification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRACKING; AVERAGE DISTANCE; CAROTID PLAQUES; CONTRAST ULTRASOUND; FLOW BEHAVIORS; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; MANUAL TRACKING; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; NEOVASCULARIZATION; NEOVASCULATURE; QUANTIFICATION; SEMI-AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL GRADING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870292847     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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