The Use of Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging in Clinical Practice.

Radiol Clin North Am

Laboratoire D'imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Orsay, France; Department of Radiology, APHP, Hôpitaux Raymond-Poincaré & Ambroise Paré, DMU Smart Imaging, GH Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France.

Published: May 2023


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Three-dimensional vessel wall MR imaging has gained popularity in the diagnosis and management of patients with cerebrovascular disease in clinical practice. Vessel wall MR imaging is an imaging technique that delivers a fundamentally different viewpoint by emphasizing on the pathology of the vessel wall as opposed to traditional descriptions that focus on the vessel lumen. It shows a crucial power in detecting vessel wall changes in patients with diseases including, but not limited to, central nervous system vasculitis, moyamoya disease, aneurysms, dissections, and intracranial atherosclerotic disease.

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