A review of carotid atherosclerosis and vascular cognitive decline: a new understanding of the keys to symptomology

RJ Dempsey, R Vemuganti, T Varghese… - Neurosurgery, 2010‏ - journals.lww.com
This review encourages the reader to consider cerebral vascular disease beyond the
traditional clinical end points of major motor and speech strokes and to consider the …

Vascular ultrasound for atherosclerosis imaging

CL de Korte, HHG Hansen… - Interface …, 2011‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the Western world. Therefore,
detection and quantification of atherosclerotic disease is of paramount importance to monitor …

Quasi-static ultrasound elastography

T Varghese - Ultrasound clinics, 2009‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Elastography is a new imaging modality where elastic tissue parameters related to the
structural organization of normal and pathological tissues are imaged. Basic principles …

Histopathologic validation of grayscale carotid plaque characteristics related to plaque vulnerability

CC Mitchell, JH Stein, TD Cook, S Salamat… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Inflammation and angiogenesis play major roles in carotid plaque vulnerability. The purpose
of this study was to determine whether gray-scale features of carotid plaques are associated …

Segmentation of plaques in sequences of ultrasonic B-mode images of carotid arteries based on motion estimation and a Bayesian model

F Destrempes, J Meunier, MF Giroux… - IEEE Transactions …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this paper is to perform a segmentation of atherosclerotic plaques in view of
evaluating their burden and to provide boundaries for computing properties such as the …

Carotid artery plaque vulnerability assessment using noninvasive ultrasound elastography: validation with MRI

MH Roy Cardinal, MHG Heusinkveld, Z Qin… - American journal of …, 2017‏ - ajronline.org
OBJECTIVE. Vulnerable and nonvulnerable carotid artery plaques have different tissue
morphology and composition that may affect plaque biomechanics. The objective of this …

Shear wave elastography plaque characterization with mechanical testing validation: a phantom study

E Widman, E Maksuti, D Larsson… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Determining plaque vulnerability is critical when selecting the most suitable treatment for
patients with atherosclerotic plaque. Currently, clinical non-invasive ultrasound-based …

Ultrasound-based carotid elastography for detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques validated by magnetic resonance imaging

C Huang, X Pan, Q He, M Huang, L Huang… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Ultrasound-based carotid elastography has been developed to estimate the mechanical
properties of atherosclerotic plaques. The objective of this study was to evaluate the in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Plaque hemorrhage in carotid artery disease: pathogenesis, clinical and biomechanical considerations

Z Teng, U Sadat, AJ Brown, JH Gillard - Journal of biomechanics, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Stroke remains the most prevalent disabling illness today, with internal carotid artery luminal
stenosis due to atheroma formation responsible for the majority of ischemic cerebrovascular …

Carotid wall longitudinal motion in ultrasound imaging: an expert consensus review

FY Rizi, J Au, H Yli-Ollila, S Golemati… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Motion extracted from the carotid artery wall provides unique information for vascular health
evaluation. Carotid artery longitudinal wall motion corresponds to the multiphasic arterial …