Work in progress: common carotid artery contours reconstructed in three dimensions from parallel ultrasonic images.
Three-dimensional sonograms of the common carotid artery were obtained using a device which takes images in parallel planes. Tests in phantoms simulating atherosclerotic vessels the same size as the common carotid artery indicated that the coefficient of variation of a single luminal measurement was 2-5%.
D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography