Plaque and Vessel Wall Imaging

Room B 118-122         16:30 - 18:30                           Chairs: David N. Firmin and Bruce A. Wasserman

16:30         106.      Defining the Interactions of SNR and Resolution in Classifying Carotid Plaque

Raphael Raoul Ronen1,2, Sharon Elizabeth Clarke1,2, Robert Hammond2,3, Brian Keith Rutt1,2

1Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; 2University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 3London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

 

16:42         107.      Characterization of Carotid Plaque by Using an Inversion-Recovery Based T1-Weighted Imaging in Correlation with Ipsilateral Ischemic Events

Naoaki Yamada1, Masahiro Higashi1, Ryoichi Otsubo1, Naoki Oyama1, Toshiharu Sakuma1, Ryoichi Tanaka1,

Hiroaki Naito1

1National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan

 

16:54         108.      In-Vivo Imaging of Macrophage Accumulation in Symptomatic Carotid Atheroma

Simon Peter Howarth1, Rikin A. Trivedi1, Martin J. Graves1, Justin J. Cross1, Jo Horsley2, Martin J. Goddard2, Elizabeth Warburton1, Ilse Joubert1, Peter J. Kirkpatrick1, Andrew P. Brown3, Jonathan H. Gillard1

1University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; 2Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; 3GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford, UK

 

17:06         109.      Evaluation of High Resolution Vessel Wall Imaging in the Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in 41 Patients - not available

Thorsten Alexander Bley1, Oliver Wieben1, Markus Uhl1, Nadir Alexander Ghanem1, Dieter Schmidt1, Peter Vaith, Jürgen Hennig1, Mathias Langer1

1University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

 

17:18         110.      Magnetic Resonance Direct Thrombus Imaging of the Carotid Plaque Is Associated with Increased Thromboembolization - not available

Nishath Altaf1,2, Lucy Daniels1, Andrew Beech2, Paul S. Morgan1, John Gladman1, Shane T. MacSweeney2,

Alan Moody3, Dorothee P. Auer1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; 2Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK; 3Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada

 

17:30         111.      Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaque of Carotid Arteries with Histopathological Correlation: Vascular Wall MR Imaging vs Doppler US - not available

Yuji Watanabe1, Masako Nagayama1, Kazumichi Yoshida1, Sen Yamagata1, Akira Okumura1, Yoshiki Amoh1,

Tsuyoshi Suga1, Takashi Tabuchi1, Makoto Obara2, Marc Van Cauteren2, Hideki Mitsui1, Kazuaki Nakada1,

Noriyoshi Morimoto1, Masayuki Kumashiro1, Shinsuke Komaki1, Takashi Kiyono1, Yoshihiro Dodo1, K Oda1

1Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan; 2Philips Medical Systems Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

17:42         112.      Early Versus Advanced Atherosclerotic Plaque in Vivo Detection by Gadofluorine M-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging - not available

Marc Sirol1, K-Raman Purushothaman1, Pedro Moreno1, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann2, Bernd Misselwitz2,

Valentin Fuster1, Zahi A. Fayad1

1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

 

17:54         113.      Gadofluorine-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaque in Swine - not available

Ioannis Koktzoglou1, Kathleen R. Harris1, Bonnie J. Kane1, Richard Tang1, Ashwin Nagaraj1, Biao Lu1,

Bernd Misselwitz2, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann2, Timothy J. Carroll1, David D. McPherson1, Debiao Li1

1Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

 

18:06         114.      MR Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques with the Iron-Oxide-Based Contrast Medium VSOP-C184 - not available

Matthias Taupitz1, Jörg Schnorr1,2, Herbert Pilgrimm2, Bernd Hamm1, Susanne Wagner1,2

1Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2Ferropharm GmbH, Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany

 

18:18         115.      Ex Vivo MR Imaging of Atherosclerotic Rabbit Aorta Labelled with USPIO – Enhancement of Iron Loaded Regions in UTE Imaging. - not available

Lindsey Alexandra Crowe1, Yi-Xiang Wang2, Peter Gatehouse1, Jean Tessier2, John Waterton2, Philippe Robert3, Graeme Bydder4, David N. Firmin1

1Imperial College / Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK; 2AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Macclesfield, UK; 3Guerbet Group, Roissy, France; 4University of California, San Diego, California, USA