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Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol 19, Issue 6 399-407, Copyright © 2000 by American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Comparability of the ultrasonic tissue characteristics of carotid plaques

T. J. Tegos, M. M. Sabetai, A. N. Nicolaides, G. Pare, T. S. Elatrozy, S. Dhanjil and M. Griffin
Department of Vascular Surgery, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England.

Hypoechoic carotid atherosclerotic plaques on ultrasonographic examination were found to be associated with cerebrovascular events. This underlines the need for an accurate evaluation of their echotexture characteristics. The objective of this study was to further validate a proposed method of normalization aiming to facilitate the comparability of these characteristics. The sonographic examination involved imaging of carotid plaques using duplex technique and capturing, digitization, and normalization in a computer in a standard way. In the first part, the interobserver and interscanner variability and the gain-level variability within the ultrasound unit were examined, before and after normalization, in terms of plaque echotexture. The second part investigated the effect of normalization on the echotexture of 419 symptomatic and asymptomatic plaques. Our results indicated that the normalization reduced the interscanner variability and the gain-level variability. The interobserver variability was excellent. In addition, this process further distinguished the echotexture characteristics of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid plaques, which encourages the use of this method in natural history studies in persons with asymptomatic carotid atherosclerotic disease, aiming to identify those at higher risk for stroke. These patients might benefit from a carotid endarterectomy.


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