Sonosite, as well as a few other companies make this software.

RR


On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:58:42 -0800, stacey guillory 
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>Which software are you talking about?
>
>Stacey
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>> 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
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>> wrote:
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>> >
>> >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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