Open AccessAssessment of Carotid Plaque Stability Based on the Dynamic Enhancement Pattern in Plaque Components With Multidetector CT Angiography
Author(s) -
Nobutaka Horie,
Minoru Morikawa,
Shunsuke Ishizaka,
Tomonori Takeshita,
Gohei So,
Kentarō Hayashi,
Kazuhiko Suyama,
Izumi Nagata
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.111.635953
Subject(s) - medicine , vulnerable plaque , radiology , angiography , nuclear medicine , cardiology
Recent studies have investigated plaque morphology to determine patients who are at high risk of carotid atherosclerosis. In this study, we investigated whether a difference in dynamic enhancement pattern in plaque components could be useful to assess plaque stability with multidetector CT angiography.
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