Assessment of Ultrasonic B-Scan Imaging for Detection and Quantification of Atherosclerotic Lesions in Human Carotid and Iliofemoral Arteries and in Arteries of Animals

摘要

The B-Scan Assessment program presents a new challenge for ultrasound in determining its ability to identify and quantify atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid and femoral arteries. As in many modalities of diagnostic implementation in medicine, the state of the art is enhanced by the trial and error experience and repetition. We have found that in the past year, correlation of B-Scan with arteriogram of the two vessels concerned has demonstrated that time and education could provide essentially a non-invasive workup of a stroke-prone patient. Similarly, patients suffering from claudication clinically arising from diseased femoral arteries might instead be scheduled for a non-invasive study, than initially the invasive arteriogram.