Carotid inter‐adventitial diameter is more strongly related to plaque score than lumen diameter: An automated tool for stroke analysis

To compare the strength of correlation between automatically measured carotid lumen diameter (LD) and interadventitial diameter (IAD) with plaque score (PS).

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