PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - O'Loughlin, Taryn
ED  - Yuan, Chun
TI  - Imaging Vulnerable Plaque
DP  - 2006  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 26--28
VI  - 6
IP  - 5
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/5/26.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/5/26.full
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.