RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 O'Loughlin, Taryn
T1 Imaging Vulnerable Plaque
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2006
FD SAGE Publications
VO 6
IS 5
SP 26
OP 28
DO 10.1177/155989770600600515
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/5/26.abstract
AB MRI offers non-invasive in vivo characterization of human atherosclerosis. MRI's capabilities have been histologically validated, and its findings are quantitative and reproducible. The valuable information that serial MRI imaging can provide includes insights into the natural history of atherosclerosis progression, and particularly into the role that lesion morphology, tissue composition, inflammation, hemodynamics and mechanical stress play in those lesions likely to cause future events.