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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Imaging Med. 2010 Feb 1;2(1):63–75. doi: 10.2217/iim.09.33

Figure 4. 3 T MRI of a plaque in the right common carotid artery that demonstrates fibrous cap rupture with ulcer formation (yellow arrow).

Figure 4

The crescent-shaped, high-signal region in the PDW, T2W and CE T1W images corresponds to a region of thrombus formation, shown on the matched histology section (hematoxylin and eosin stain).

CE: Contrast enhanced; PDW: Proton density weighted; T1W: T1-weighted; T2W: T2-weighted; TOF: Time-of-flight.

Reproduced with permission from [63].