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Does shear wave elastography improve the detection of symptomatic carotid plaques?
Does shear wave elastography improve the detection of symptomatic carotid plaques?
Shear wave elastography is a feasible adjunctive imaging modality to common ultrasound for differentiating symptomatic carotid plaques.
May support adjunctive shear wave elastography for carotid plaque assessment; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Shear wave elastography can evaluate the Young's modulus of carotid plaque stably, and could serve as an additional method for the detection of symptomatic carotid plaques, which, in combination with common ultrasound, can promote the efficiency of differentiating symptomatic carotid plaques.
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