Atherosclerosis is a prevalent disease affecting a large portion of the population at one point
in their lives. There is an unmet need for noninvasive diagnostics to identify and characterize …

Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the buildup of plaques in
arterial walls, leading to cardiovascular diseases and high morbidity and mortality rates …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: High-resolution vessel wall MR imaging is prone to slow-
flow artifacts, particularly when gadolinium shortens the T1 relaxation time of blood. This …

Purpose Imaging the carotid arteries at 7T ideally requires a flexible multichannel array that
allows B1‐shimming and conforms to different neck sizes. The major challenge is to …

Accurate quantification and characterization of atherosclerotic plaques with MRI requires
high spatial resolution acquisitions with excellent image quality. The intrinsically better …

Purpose Simultaneous multislab (SMSb) 4D flow MRI was developed and implemented at
7T for accelerated acquisition of the 3D blood velocity vector field in both carotid …

Arteriosclerosis is the leading cause of stroke, with a fatality rate surpassing that of ischemic
heart disease. High-resolution vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging is generally …

Imaging the carotid arteries at 7T requires a multichannel array which allows B 1-shimming
and conforms to different neck sizes. The major challenge is to minimise coupling between …

Nuclear magnetic resonance has become a key medical tool for clinical diagnosis,
monitoring, and intervention. This foremost imaging modality is routinely used to assess a …