Takeshi Ishimoto1, Yasuyo Taniguchi2,
Tosiaki Miyati3, Momoe Kawakami4, Takayuki Ikeda5,
Hisaya Kusabe5
1Division of Health Science, , Graduate
school of Medical, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan; 2Department
of Cardiology, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan; 3Division
of Health Science,, Graduate school of Medical, Kanazawa University,
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan; 4Radiology and Clinical Laboratory,
Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji , Hyogo, Japan; 5Radiology
and Clinical Laboratory, Hyogo Brain and Heart Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan
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the study, we sought to determine whether coronary vessel wall imaging using
inversion recovery prepared SSFP correlate with atherosclerosis detected by
64 raw MDCT. IR-SSFP can be used to non-invasively visualize the coronary
vessel wall and to detect the presence of (sub)clinical coronary
atherosclerosis . HSI of IR-SSFP may be indicative of plaque inflammation
and/or hemorrhage. Therefore, coronary plaque vulnerability could be
predicted by cardiac MRI. Further studies are needed to define the importance
of these findings in the detection and treatment of vulnerable plaques.