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Molecular MRI of Thrombosis Using Novel Fibrin-Specific Contrast Agent: Initial Results in Humans at 3.0 T

Marcus Katoh¹, ², Andrea Wiethoff³, Roland Sparing⁴, Rolf W. Gunther⁴, Elmar Spuentrup⁴

¹University Hospital Saarland, Homburg, Germany; ²University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany; ³Philips Medical Systems, Netherlands; ⁴University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
 

p38 MAPK Inhibition Reduces Aortic Ultrasmall Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Contrast Agent Uptake as

Assessed by MRI in an Atherosclerotic Mouse Model

Joanne B. Morris¹, Alan R. Olzinski¹, Roberta E. Bernard¹, karpagam Aravindhan¹, Robert N. Willette¹, Beat M. Jucker¹

¹GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

Iron Oxide Enhancing Atherosclerotic Plaque: Feasibility of White Marker Imaging Techniques

Carsten Warmuth¹, Jörg Schnorr², ³, Susanne Wagner², ³

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ³Ferropharm GmbH, Teltow, Germany
 

Molecular Imaging of Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Plaques Using Bimodal PEG-Micelles

Willem J. M. Mulder¹, ², Gustav J. Strijkers², Karen C. Briley-Saboe¹, Juan C. Frias¹, Juan Gilberto S. Aguinaldo¹, Esad Vucic¹, Klaas Nicolay², Zahi A. Fayad¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
 

Combining Contrast Enhanced In Vivo and Ex Vivo MRI for Characterizing Vulnerable Plaques in a

Rabbit Model of Atherothrombosis

Alkystis Phinikaridou¹, Kevin J. Hallock¹, Ye Qiao¹, James A. Hamilton¹

¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 

Gadolinium Mixed Micelles Containing Apolipoprotein E Derived Peptide for Atherosclerotic Plaque

Detection Through Interaction with Macrophages

Esad Vucic¹, Karen Saebo¹, Juan Gilbert Aguinaldo, Eik Leupold², Edward A. Fisher³, Margitta Dathe⁴, Zahi A. Fayad¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²Leipniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin; ³New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ⁴Leipniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany
 

Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging with Ultra Short Echo Time (UTE) MRI

Sonia Nielles-Vallespin¹, Sei Komatsu², Peter Speier¹, Kerstin V. Amann², Stephan Achenbach², Werner G. Daniel², Edgar Mueller¹

¹Siemens AG Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany
 

Development of a Dark Blood MRI Protocol for Femoral Plaque Imaging

Venkatesh Mani¹, Ioannis Koktzoglou², Yiucho Chung³, Claudia Calcagno¹, Daniel D. Samber¹, Renate Jerecic³, Debiao Li², Zahi A. Fayad¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 

Efficient Slow-Flowing Blood Suppression Technique in Atherosclerosis Imaging with Motion Sensitized

Driven Equilibrium (MSDE) TSE Sequence at 3T

Jinnan Wang¹, Vasily Yarnykh¹, Thomas Hatsukami², Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA
 

Delayed Hyperenhancement MR Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging in Patients with Stable and Unstable Coronary

Artery Disease

Tareq Ibrahim¹, Antanas Jankauskas¹, Markus Schwaiger¹, Albert Schomig¹, Warren J. Manning², David Maintz³, René Michael Botnar¹

¹Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³University Munster, Munster, Germany