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Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography and Carotid Plaque Imaging: from the Hemodynamic Evaluation to the Detection of Neoangiogenesis - The New Approach to the Identification of the Unstable Plaque: from Morphology to Patophysiology

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Maria Fabrizia Giannoni, Edoardo Vicenzini, Claudia Monaco and Piergiorgio Cao

Submitted: 03 June 2010 Published: 11 April 2011

DOI: 10.5772/15072

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Ultrasound Imaging

Edited by Masayuki Tanabe

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Written By

Maria Fabrizia Giannoni, Edoardo Vicenzini, Claudia Monaco and Piergiorgio Cao

Submitted: 03 June 2010 Published: 11 April 2011