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Transcranial Doppler and Cerebrovascular Risk Stratification in Patients with Internal Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis

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Ultrasound and Carotid Bifurcation Atherosclerosis

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The instrumentation and principles of duplex scanning, which combines brightness mode (B-mode) imaging with gated Doppler, has been described in detail in Chap. 5.

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