Dynamic variations in the ultrasound greyscale median of carotid artery plaques

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kanber, Baris ^a   Hartshorne, Timothy C ^a,b   Horsfield, Mark A ^a   Naylor, Andrew R ^a,b   Robinson, Thompson G ^a   Ramnarine, Kumar V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Frame by frame; GSM; Inter frame; Ultrasound; Variations

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84878894267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-11-21     Document Type: Article

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