Role of MR multi-contrast atherosclerosis characterization sequence in assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaques
Abstract：Objective To study the role of MATCH in quantitative assessment of carotid artery morphology and in qualitative assessment of carotid atherosclerotic plaque compositions .Methods Thirty patients with their carotid artery stenosis >50% detected by ultrasonography for carotid artery revascularization in our hospital were included in this study .The patients underwent preop‐erative carotid MRI ,MATCH for 5 min and routine multi‐sequence scanning (RMSS) for 18 min to characterize their carotid atherosclerotic plaques .The plaque compositions (IPH ,CA ,LRNC) were qualitatively identified by analyzing the plaque morphology parameters (LA ,WA ,NWI) using the MRI‐Plaque View Analyzing Software .Results No significant difference was found in LA ,WA and NMI detected by MATCH and RMSS (36 .27 ± 24 .23 mm2 vs 35 .72 ± 20 .12 mm2 , P=0 .062;42 .80 ± 20 .67 m m2 v s 43 .64 ± 24 .87 m m2 ,P=0 .082 ;59 .21 ± 13 .90 v s 59 .81 ± 13 .96 , P=0.072) .MATCH and RMSS showed a high consistency in characterization of plaque composi‐tions (LRNC ,CA ,IPH :κ=0 .840 ,0 .802 ,0 .773) .Conclusion MATCH may become a potential new method for assessing the compositions and rupture of carotid plaques .
Keywords：carotid arteriesmagnetic resonance imagingcarotid stenosisendarterectomycarotid
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 1129-1132 )