SAGE Journals Online
Advertisement
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Angiology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Duda, S. H.
Right arrow Articles by Claussen, C. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Duda, S. H.
Right arrow Articles by Claussen, C. D.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Intravascular Ultrasound: Value of Electronic and Mechanical Devices for Quantifying Mild to Moderate Atherosclerosis

Stephan H. Duda

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University

Manfred Wehrmann

Institute of Pathology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany

Bernd Erdtmann

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University

Peter E. Huppert

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University

Claus D. Claussen

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University

To define the accuracy of electronic and mechanical ultrasound (US) devices for deter mining the thickness of intima and media, 32 fresh normal and atherosclerotic human femoral arteries were obtained at necropsy. The samples were imaged with a 64- element array and a mechanically rotating US transducer at 20 MHz. The mean thickness of the intimal and medial layer was measured with electronic calipers followed by histopathologic and micromorphometric analysis. Morphometric correla tion for intima showed r = 0.64 for the electronic and r = 0.58 for the mechanical US device. The correlation between ultrasonic and histologic measurement of medial thickness in normal and diseased specimens was r = 0.79 for the multielement and r = 0.76 for the mechanical transducer. In conclusion, multielement array transducers are equivalent to mechanically driven probes in the quantitative assessment of periph eral arterial wall layers. Both systems lack sufficient accuracy in the determination of mild to moderate intimal thickening.

Angiology, Vol. 45, No. 7, 597-603 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979404500702
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?




Advertisement