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Abstract #2167

Optimal T1-weighted MR plaque imaging for cervical carotid artery stenosis in predicting development of microembolic signals during carotid dissection in endarterectomy.

Yuiko Sato 1 , Kuniaki Ogasawara 1 , Shinsuke Narumi 2 , Makoto Sasaki 3 , Ayumi Saito 2 , Takamasa Namba 1 , Masakazu Kobayasi 1 , Kenji Yoshida 1 , Yasuo Terayama 2 , and Akira Ogawa 1

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Iwate Medical Univercity, Morioka, Iwate, Japan, 2 Department of Neurology and Gerontology, Iwate Medical Univercity, Morioka, Iwate, Japan, 3 Division of Ultra-High Field MRI and Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical Univercity, Mrioka, Iwate, Japan

The purpose of the present study was to determine which plaque imaging technique predicts more accurately development of microembolic signals (MES) during carotid dissection in carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Our results demonstrated that non cardiac-gated spin echo (SE) T1-weighted plaque imaging, which discriminated the intraplaque characteristics with the contrast ratio of the plaque signal to the sternomastoid muscle signal and with the three component color-coded map, could predict more accurately development of MES during carotid dissection in CEA than other MR plaque imaging techniques (black-blood fast SE, MPRAGE, the source image of 3D-TOF MRA).

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