High-risk plaque features can be detected in non-stenotic carotid plaques of patients with ischaemic stroke classified as cryptogenic using combined 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 270-279

  Hyafil, Fabien ^a,b   Schindler, Andreas ^c   Sepp, Dominik ^a   Obenhuber, Tilman ^c   Bayer Karpinska, Anna ^c   Boeckh Behrens, Tobias ^a   Höhn, Sabine ^a   Hacker, Marcus ^d   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a,e   Rominger, Axel ^c   Dichgans, Martin ^a,f   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Saam, Tobias ^c   Poppert, Holger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; MRI; PET; Stroke; Vulnerable plaque

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOBUTROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; LIPID RICH/NECROTIC CORE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PET-MRI SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANKIN SCALE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STROKE;

EID: 84952977234     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-015-3201-8     Document Type: Article

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