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(a) Photograph of a mechanical linear scanning mechanism used to acquire three-dimensional carotid US images. The transducer is translated along the arteries, while conventional two-dimensional US images are acquired by a computer and reconstructed into a three-dimensional image in real time. (b) Photograph of the system being used to scan the carotid arteries.
