Characterization of distensibility, plaque burden, and composition of the atherosclerotic carotid artery using magnetic resonance imaging - Cantón, Gádor; Hippe, Daniel S.; Sun, Jie; Underhill, Hunter R.; Kerwin, William S.; Tang, Dalin; Yuan, Chun (Medical physics (Lancaster), 2012)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; bifurcation; Bifurcations; biomechanics; biomedical MRI; blood vessels; Carotid Artery Diseases - diagnosis; Carotid Artery Diseases - pathology; carotid atherosclerosis; Case-Control Studies; compliance; Contrast; Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific applications; Diseases; distensibility; estimation theory; Female; Flow visualization; Humans; Image analysis; Image data processing or generation, in general; image registration; image segmentation; image sequences; Involving electronic [emr] or nuclear [nmr] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Physics; Male; Mechanical properties; medical image processing; Medical image segmentation; Medical imaging; Middle Aged; MRI; MRI: anatomic, functional, spectral, diffusion; Plaque, Atherosclerotic - diagnosis; Plaque, Atherosclerotic - pathology; Registration; Reproducibility of Results; Segmentation; Sequence analysis; Ultrasonography; Vascular system; carotid atherosclerosis; distensibility; MRI; compliance