288 Stroke January 2013 luminal patency and stenosis, 10 whereas transcranial Doppler
indirectly estimates luminal stenosis by measuring blood flow velocity. 11 In contrast to these …

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HRMRI) is the most important and popular
vessel wall imaging technique for the direct assessment of vessel wall and cerebral arterial …

Purpose: To develop a high isotropic‐resolution sequence to evaluate intracranial vessels at
3.0 Tesla (T). Materials and Methods: Thirteen healthy volunteers and 4 patients with …

Background: Variants in the ring finger protein 213 (RNF213) gene are known to be
associated with increased predisposition to cerebrovascular diseases development …

Background and purpose Along with intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD), moyamoya
disease (MMD) is the most common cause of middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion in …

Moyamoya is a rare disorder that involves steno-occlusive arterial changes of the anterior
circulation, along with proliferative development of basal arterial collaterals. It is either …

Atherosclerotic disease has been suspected as a cause of moyamoya disease in some
patients but has not, to the authors' knowledge, been confirmed by pathological studies. The …

Imaging techniques available to the physician treating neurovascular disease have
substantially grown over the past several decades. New techniques as well as advances in …

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system for intracranial vessel wall imaging. The MRI
system includes a radio frequency (RF) coil system to irradiate radio frequency (RF) pulses …

Objective Hemorrhagic risk is unknown in patients with moyamoya-like vessels associated
with atherosclerotic intracranial cerebral artery occlusion. This study was undertaken to …