Le He1, Xihai
Zhao1, Rui Li1, Jinnan Wang2, Chun Yuan,
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1Center
for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; 2Philips Research North
America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States; 3Department of
radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Atherosclerotic disease in the thoracic aorta has been linked to an increased risk of thromboembolic events (such as embolic stroke or ischemic bowel) and an increased risk of mortality and stroke, especially for asymptomatic at-risk patients. It is very important to reliably identify aortic plaques. But the thoracic aorta located deep in the chest, it is difficult to directly evaluate the vessel wall condition with high resolution images. In this study, new MR was optimized and evaluated for the screening of the thoracic aorta atherosclerotic plaques.