Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1319-1331 , October 2001

Assessing spectral algorithms to predict atherosclerotic plaque composition with normalized and raw intravascular ultrasound data

  • Anuja Nair

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, ND20, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Barry D Kuban

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, ND20, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Nancy Obuchowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • D.Geoffrey Vince

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: D. Geoffrey Vince, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering/ND20, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, ND20, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Received 14 August 2000 ,Accepted 28 June 2001.

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