… carotid atherosclerosis. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and arterial stiffness changes
… They demonstrated that IMT measurement with B-mode ultrasound was highly reproducible …

… vessel wall which is found in atherosclerotic plaques (15). Prominent thickened, circumferential
medium echogenic IMT implies early inflammatory vessel wall changes. … reproducibility …

… Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is an ultrasound-based … atherosclerosis, serving as an
accurate and reproducible … ability to detect minor changes within atherosclerotic plaques with …

… artery wall, is a proposed marker for early atherosclerosis. … -IMT using carotid ultrasonography
is that absolute values … afford higher precision and reproducibility. However, available …

… for the Characterization of Atherosclerosis and Evaluation of … However, in this meta-analysis,
the reproducibility between first … measurements, as atherosclerosis changes can fluctuate …

… performance of carotid intima-media thickness, plaque … TPT has the advantage of a higher
reproducibility than TPA, … is approximately 0.2 mm, and the average annual change in IMT or …

… Likewise, carotid arteries that appear to not have atherosclerotic changes may signify that
… , sensitive and reproducible method of identifying and quantifying atherosclerotic disease (…

… B-mode ultrasound is used to measure the intima-media … These techniques are noninvasive,
sensitive, and reproducible … Increased IMT in the absence of plaque is not atherosclerosis…

… change of IMT (∼0.015 mm) is too small to be detected within a clinically affordable time frame
[10]. In addition, IMT measurements assess the intima-media … indicate atherosclerosis [11]…

… for atherosclerosis and is often computed in carotid ultrasound … The inter- and intra-observer
reproducibility of manual CIMT … carotid intima media thickness and its rate of change in …