Quantitative assessment of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis and lenticulostriate arteries in recent stroke patients using whole-brain high-resolution cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract Background It has been shown that intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) has heterogeneous features in terms of plaque instability and vascular remodeling. Therefore, quantitative information on the changes of intracranial atherosclerosis and lenticulostriate arteries (LSAs) may poten...

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Main Authors: Mengnan Wang, Fang Wu, Yujiao Yang, Huijuan Miao, Zhaoyang Fan, Xunming Ji, Debiao Li, Xiuhai Guo, Qi Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12968-018-0465-8