title: Carotid artery wall thickness measured using CT: inter- and intraobserver agreement analysis.
abstract: The purpose of this work was to compare inter- and intraobserver agreement in the analysis of CAWT by using MDCTA. The CAWT in 35 patients was quantified by 4 observers. Bland-Altman statistics were used to measure the agreement between observers. The results of our study demonstrated that the CAWT measured by using MDCTA shows a good reproducibility between observers by considering inter- and intraobserver agreement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria, Cagliari 09045, Italy. lucasaba@tiscali.it
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Saba
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sanfilippo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Montisci
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mallarini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D059168:Carotid Intima-Media Thickness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
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