I would say that measuring Carotid IMT without specialized edge-detection 
software that is bundled with included gender/age/race graphs that have been 
developed in the course of 20+ years of clinical research should be 
discouraged, to say the least.

The most commonly conducted Carotid IMT test requires 3 measurements from 
each distal 1cm segment of the CCA using 3 specific angulation parameters. 
Each measurement consists of about a 1cm segment of the intima-media and 
would account for about 100-120 simutaneous AP measurments that are 
analysed and averaged into the other 5 sites. A final patient specific report is 
then generated using the IMT software. Thus, you should be taking 
approximately 600-720 dead-on-balls accurate measurements of these 6 sites.

If you are NOT doing at least this for your patients, then you are doing them a 
great disservice.

RR

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:35:36 -0600, Lygia Waters <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>
>Hi, is anyone out there measuring CIMT without using a specific software 
program?  If so, how?  If not, why not? 
> 
>Thanks!
> 
>L.Waters, RVT
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