Computer-assisted carotid plaque analysis: characteristics of plaques associated with cerebrovascular symptoms and cerebral infarction
OBJECTIVE: to correlate the echostructural characteristics of carotid plaques with neurological symptoms and cerebral infarcts. MATERIALS: one hundred and five plaques were studied in 74 patients by colour-flow duplex ultrasound: 39 were symptomatic and 37 were associated with brain infarction on CT scanning. METHODS: the images were digitalised for computer-assisted image standardisation and divi
