Ultrasound Core Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Research
The University of Wisconsin Atherosclerosis Imaging Research Program (UW AIRP) is an ultrasound core laboratory for clinical and epidemiological research studies that use ultrasound, electrocardiographic, exercise, and other physiologic research tools to quantify atherosclerosis, arterial injury, and cardiovascular disease risk.
Capabilities
- Carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and grayscale analysis
- Carotid artery plaque detection and quantification
- Brachial artery reactivity testing of endothelial function and grayscale analysis
- Arterial stiffness by tonometry and carotid ultrasound
- Assessment of cardiac structure, function, and coronary blood flow (by echocardiography)
- Exercise stress testing with electrocardiography, echocardiography, and metabolic measures
- 12-lead electrocardiography
- Heart rate variability
We also can perform ambulatory electrocardiography/12-lead Holter monitoring, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and coronary artery calcium scoring using cardiac computed tomography.
The UW AIRP is the Carotid Ultrasound Reading Center for the NHLBI Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the NuMOM2b Heart Health Study, and several other NIH-funded research studies. We also are the Brachial Artery Reactivity Testing (BART) Reading Center for the NHLBI HIV-CVD Collaborative and several other studies.
Research Team
Director
Associate Director
Manager
Associate Lab Manager
Research and Quality Assurance Coordinator
Research Collaborators
- National Collaborators
- Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group
- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
- Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
- NHLBI HIV/AIDS Program
- Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Follow-up Study
- Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
- Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air)
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Medicine
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Preventative Medicine
- NuMOM2b Heart Health Study
- University of Washington Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center (CHSCC)
- University of Wisconsin Collaborators
- UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
- UW Cardiovascular Research Center
- UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
- UW Department of Medical Physics
- UW Department of Medicine
- UW Department of Population Health Sciences
- UW Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Pulmonary Research Center
- UW Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
- UW Health
- UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- UW Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI)
- William S Middleton VA Hospital Geriatric Cardiology Lab (Gepner Lab)
- Wisconsin Diabetes Registry Study