Shear wave elastography assessment of carotid plaque stiffness: Invitro reproducibility study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 200-209

  Ramnarine, Kumar V ^a   Garrard, James W ^b   Dexter, Katie ^a   Nduwayo, Sarah ^b   Panerai, Ronney B ^b   Robinson, Thompson G ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; Reproducibility; Shear wave elastography; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

CAROTID PLAQUES; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; REGIONS OF INTEREST; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; VESSEL PHANTOM; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULI;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; THERMOGRAPHY; YOUNG MODULUS;

CAROTID PLAQUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84888436620     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.09.014     Document Type: Article

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