“…Annular calcification and thick artery walls also cause difficulties in the US diagnosis. In such cases, other diagnostic methods may be performed: subtraction digital angiography (DSA), MDCTA, or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. Agreement between multidetector row computed tomography (CT), MDCTA, and CD-US in measuring carotid artery wall thickness (CAWT) and the intima-media thickness (IMT) [21] has been applied recently.…”