Oh yes, Audrey, how foolish of me to forget that these other tools are at our 
disposal! ;o) 

I did try using a fishing depthfinder for my initial studies, but the patients who 
looked over at the screen saw little fishies instead of plaque formations. They 
were disturbed about the images. Oh, how silly I was back then.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:26:59 -0800, Audrey Fleming 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Ahh come on Rob, hand grenades, horseshoes, and sonography....all you 
need is to get close enough for it to count..........<ducking>
>
>SUBSCRIBE UVMFLOWNET robert rosner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:   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
>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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