Comprehensive and rapid assessment of carotid plaques in acute stroke using a new single sweep method for three-dimensional carotid ultrasound

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 414-418

  Kalashyan, Harapet ^a   Saqqur, Maher ^a   Shuaib, Ashfaq ^a   Romanchuk, Helen ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^b   Becher, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid plaque; single sweep method; stroke; three dimensional carotid ultrasound; two dimensional carotid ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; STROKE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875761969     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12128     Document Type: Article

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