Supraaortic MRA and vessel wall enhancement with a blood pool contrast agent at 3.0T: Preliminary results in carotid artery disease and intraindividual comparision with Gd-DTPA
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Introduction In the recent years, emphasis was shifted from luminal narrowing to vessel wall composition for assessment of the potential risk for acute ischemic attacks (1,2). Vessel wall enhancement has been suggested as a potential marker for the identification of high-risk atherosclerotic plaques and has been associated with proinflammatory cardiovascular risk factors (3-7). Gadofosveset trisodium is a Gadolinium-based contrast agent with prolonged intravascular enhancement due to albuminbinding in the plasma and enables prolonged imaging with high vascular contrast (8). The current study was carried out to analyze the level of plaque enhancement at 3.0 Tesla with gadofosveset trisodium as compared with that with Gd-DTPA.
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