High-definition imaging of carotid artery wall dynamics

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2392-2403

  Kruizinga, Pieter ^a   Mastik, Frits ^a   van den Oord, Stijn C H ^a   Schinkel, Arend F L ^a   Bosch, Johannes G ^a   de Jong, Nico ^a,b,c   van Soest, Gijs ^a   van der Steen, Anton F W ^a,b,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; High frame rate ultrasound; Plane wave imaging; Pulse wave velocity; Tissue Doppler

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; ELASTIC WAVES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CAROTID ARTERY; HIGH FRAME RATE; PLANE WAVE; PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; TISSUE DOPPLER;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CAROTID ARTERY WALL DYNAMICS; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HIGH FRAME RATE ULTRASOUND IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING TEST; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84926244476     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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