Since the beginning of the 1980's, various biomedical scientists have faced the problem of
measuring and validating atherosclerotic lesion severity, extent and composition by …

During the implementation of an NIH sponsored contract program titled “Assessment of
Ultrasonic B-Scan Imaging for Detection and Quantification of Atherosclerotic Lesions in …

Technical progress in echotomography has made it possible to identify a number of
structures within the atheromatous lesion itself. Such echotomographic data were compared …

This study was designed to determine whether B-mode ultrasound imaging is accurate for
identifying and quantifying localized atherosclerosis using angiography and pathological …

The quantitative and qualitative evaluation of atherosclerotic lesions by the ultrasonography
has presented several problems, above all, the determination of accuracy and …

The ability of high-resolution ultrasound, angiography, and pathologic examination of
endarterectomy specimens to identify and quantitate atherosclerosis was compared in a five …

Results of B-mode imaging of extracranial carotid arteries in patients selected for surgery as
compared with histologic results. Observations of the samples obtained by endarterectomy …

The ultrasound evaluation of carotid artery atherosclerosis has evolved over the years. At
the start, B-mode (gray-scale) images were used to evaluate the severity of carotid artery …

The ability of duplex scanning to characterise the component tissue of atheromatous lesions
of the internal carotid artery and to detect ulceration has been examined in a histological …

Echo-Doppler analysis is a fundamental medical tool for the evaluation of the presence of
atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid artery (Carpenter et al, 1995), since it may show the …