Estimation of arterial stiffness, compliance, and distensibility from M-mode ultrasound measurements of the common carotid artery.
Author(s) -
Greg Gamble,
J. Zorn,
Gregory P. Sanders,
Stephen MacMahon,
Norman Sharpe
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.25.1.11
Subject(s) - medicine , arterial stiffness , ultrasound , right common carotid artery , repeatability , cardiology , common carotid artery , compliance (psychology) , coefficient of variation , blood pressure , asymptomatic , carotid arteries , nuclear medicine , radiology , mathematics , psychology , social psychology , statistics
Arterial stiffness may indicate early vascular changes that predispose to the development of major vascular disease. The repeatability of a variety of indices of arterial stiffness calculated from a standard carotid arterial M-mode ultrasound image was investigated.
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