MRI plaque tissue characterization and assessment of plaque stability.
This chapter reviews current MRI techniques to differentiate stable versus high risk atherosclerosis and discusses the development of non-invasive MR imaging techniques to characterize atherosclerotic plaques. Tissue specific MR signal features will be described according to histo-pathological evaluation standards and comprehensive imaging protocol for the identification of different lesion types will be introduced.
Yuan
Chun
C
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hatsukami
Thomas S
TS
Cai
Jianming
J
D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D058226:Plaque, Atherosclerotic