Naomi Larsen
Counseling of patients with incidental intracranial aneurysms poses a challenge to interventional neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons. Several clinical scoring systems have been in use for the stratification of rupture risk. Analysis of aneurysm morphology and hemodynamic variables not only serves as an important tool for patient-specific rupture risk assessment, but also reveals valuable insight into … more »
Arjen Lindenholz
Intracranial vessel wall imaging is an emerging MRI technique that is increasingly being used in clinical practice. The ability to depict and analyze the intracranial vessel wall itself, rather than luminal changes, has already shown its value in an increasing number of intracranial arterial diseases, such as vasculitis and intracranial atherosclerosis.
Most of these sequences, … more »
Taku Sato
Karsten H. Wrede
We started our research with a whole-body 7T MRI system in 2009. Since then, we have shown in several studies that ultra-high-field MRI is an excellent tool for in vivo visualization of cerebral vascular microstructures.1-4 Our current research focus is … more »
Mervyn Vergouwen
The number of incidentally discovered unruptured intracranial aneurysms increases due to the rising availability and use of brain imaging. Currently, the best available tool to predict the risk of aneurysm rupture is the Population, Hypertension, Age, Size of Aneurysm, Earlier Subarachnoid Hemorrhage from Another Aneurysm, and Site of Aneurysm (PHASES) score. This score … more »
Bruce Wasserman
Our intracranial vessel wall imaging (VWI) techniques evolved as an extension of our extracranial carotid imaging work, and, consequently, our initial focus had been identifying and characterizing intracranial atherosclerosis.
As we gained experience with this technique, we recognized that another important application was to distinguish atherosclerosis from other intracranial vasculopathies, thereby addressing the relative … more »
Maria Vittoria Spampinato
High-resolution intracranial vessel wall MR imaging (VW-MRI) has emerged in recent years as the leading imaging modality for the visualization and characterization of the arterial vessel wall.1-3 VW-MRI has a complementary role to luminal imaging techniques, and has been increasingly used as a clinical tool in the diagnosis of intracranial vascular diseases … more »