Atherosclerosis Disease Management

1. Introduction to the Pathology of Carotid Atherosclerosis: Histologic Classification and Imaging Correlation
Naima Carter-Monroe, Saami K. Yazdani, Elena Ladich, Frank D. Kolodgie, Renu Virmani

2. Cardiovascular Risk in Subjects with Carotid Pathologies
Fulvio Orzan, Matteo Anselmino, Margherita Cannillo

3. Neurological Evaluation and Management of Patients with Atherosclerotic Disease
William Liboni, Enrica Pavanelli, Nicoletta Rebaudengo, Filippo Molinari, Jasjit S. Suri

4. Pathology of Atherosclerotic Disease
Andrea Marsico

5. Stress Analysis on Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques by Fluid Structure Interaction
Hao Gao, Quan Long

6. Methods in Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization Using Intravascular Ultrasound Images and Backscattered Signals
Amin Katouzian, Stéphane G. Carlier, Andrew F. Laine

7. Despeckle Filtering of Ultrasound Images
Christos P. Loizou, Constantinos S. Pattichis

8. Use of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Plaque Characterization
Filippo Molinari, William Liboni, Pierangela Giustetto, Enrica Pavanelli, Sara Giordano, Jasjit S. Suri

9. An Integrated Approach to Computer-Based Automated Tracing and IMT Measurement for Carotid Artery Longitudinal Ultrasound Images
Filippo Molinari, Guang Zeng, Jasjit S. Suri

10. Inter-Greedy Technique for Fusion of Different Segmentation Strategies Leading to High-Performance Carotid IMT Measurement in Ultrasound Images
Filippo Molinari, Guang Zeng, Jasjit S. Suri

11. Techniques and Challenges in Intima–Media Thickness Measurement for Carotid Ultrasound Images: A Review
Filippo Molinari, Guang Zeng, Jasjit S. Suri

12. 3D Carotid Ultrasound Imaging
Grace Parraga, Aaron Fenster, Adam Krasinski, Bernard Chiu, Micaela Egger, J. David Spence

13. CT Imaging in the Carotid Artery
Luca Saba

14. Fast, Accurate Unsupervised Segmentation of 3D Magnetic Resonance Angiography
Ayman El-Baz, Georgy Gimel’farb, Ahmed Elnakib, Robert Falk, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar

15. Noninvasive Imaging for Risk Prediction in Carotid Atherosclerotic Disease
Holger Poppert, R. Feurer, L. Esposito, T. Saam, Dirk Sander

16. Noninvasive Targeting of Vulnerable Carotid Plaques for Therapeutic Interventions
Karol P. Budohoski, Victoria E. L. Young, Tjun Y. Tang, Jonathan H. Gillard, Peter J. Kirkpatrick, Rikin A. Trivedi

17. Noninvasive Imaging of Carotid Atherosclerosis
Robert M. Kwee, Robert J. Oostenbrugge, Leo Hofstra, Jos M. A. Engelshoven, Werner H. Mess, Joachim E. Wildberger, M. Eline Kooi

18. Treatment of Carotid Stenosis: Carotid Endarterectomy and Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting
Franco Nessi, Michelangelo Ferri, Emanuele Ferrero, Andrea Viazzo

19. Drug Therapy and Follow-Up
Mario Eandi

20. Control of Inflammation with Complement Control Agents to Prevent Atherosclerosis
Perla Thorbjornsdottir, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, Girish J. Kotwal, Gudmundur Johann Arason

21. Vibro-Acoustography of Arteries
Cristina Pislaru, James F. Greenleaf, Birgit Kantor, Mostafa Fatemi

22. Metabonomics in Patients with Atherosclerotic Artery Disease
Filippo Molinari, Pierangela Giustetto, William Liboni, Franco Nessi, Michelangelo Ferri, Emanuele Ferrero, Andrea Viazzo, Jasjit S. Suri

23. Molecular Imaging of Atherosclerosis
Patrick Kee, Wouter Driessen

24. Biologic Nanoparticles and Vascular Disease
Maria K. Schwartz, John C. Lieske, Virginia M. Miller

25. (Shear) Strain Imaging Used in Noninvasive Detection of Vulnerable Plaques in the Carotid Arterial Wall
T. Idzenga, H. H. G. Hansen, C. L. Korte

26. Intravascular Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging: From Tissue Characterization to Molecular Imaging to Image-Guided Therapy
Bo Wang, Jimmy Su, Andrei Karpiouk, Doug Yeager, Stanislav Emelianov

27. Evaluation Criteria of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: Noninvasive Multimodal Imaging and Molecular Imaging
Rakesh Sharma, Jose Katz

28. Ultrasound and MRI-Based Technique for Quantifying Hemodynamics in Human Cardiovascular Systems
Fuxing Zhang, Alex J. Barker

Keywords: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Cardiology