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Advanced Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging and Future Directions

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Intracranial vessel wall imaging is a rapidly evolving method for identifying and characterizing neurovascular disease and is complementary to conventional angiographic imaging techniques such as catheter angiography, CT angiography, and MR angiography. It can diagnose etiologies underlying intracranial stenosis, identify culprit plaques in the setting of ischemic stroke, and characterize ruptured aneurysm in the setting of subarachnoid hemorrhage or unstable/at-risk aneurysms. In this chapter, we review the current literature and potential future directions.

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Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi, N., Wasserman, B.A. (2020). Advanced Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging and Future Directions. In: Yuan, C., Hatsukami, T., Mossa-Basha, M. (eds) Vessel Based Imaging Techniques . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25249-6_3

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