Echo-computed tomography strain imaging of healthy and diseased carotid specimens

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1329-1342

  Boekhoven, Renate W ^a   Rutten, Marcel C M ^a   Van Sambeek, Marc R ^b   Van de Vosse, Frans N ^a   Lopata, Richard G P ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Echo computed tomography; Strain imaging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; HUMAN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES; INTRALUMINAL PRESSURE; PORCINE CAROTID ARTERIES; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY;

STRAIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SWINE; SYSTOLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERIES; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84899916894     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2013.11.026     Document Type: Article

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