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  • Title: Experimental and clinical validation of arterial diameter waveform and intimal media thickness obtained from B-mode ultrasound image processing.
    Author: Graf S, Gariepy J, Massonneau M, Armentano RL, Mansour S, Barra JG, Simon A, Levenson J.
    Journal: Ultrasound Med Biol; 1999 Nov; 25(9):1353-63. PubMed ID: 10626622.
    Abstract:
    A new automated computerized system (IôTEC) that assesses concomitantly the instantaneous temporal arterial diameter and intimal media thickness (IMT) obtained from B-mode ultrasound (US) images was validated by sonomicrometry in sheep, by an echo-tracking system in humans, and by a Lucite phantom in vitro. Differences between methods for diameter measurements did not vary in any systematic way, with no significant differences in the lower frequency range. Ultrasonic measurements of the true phantom gap sizes showed high correlation (r2 = 0.98,p < 0.001) with no systematic errors. Carotid and femoral arteries in humans were strongly related between IôTEC and echo-tracking device (r2 = 0.94 carotid; R2 = 0.88 femoral, p < 0.001), with a Gaussian distribution of the errors. This new method showed high intra- and interobserver repeatability of arterial diameter and IMT, allowing consistent characterization of arterial dynamics in humans.
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