Table 2.

Plaque characteristics of intracranial atherosclerotic lesions on histology-verified vessel wall imaging (VWI)

Plaque characteristics	Signal on the histology-validated VWI	References
Fibrous cap	Iso-intense on T1 and T2	Turan et al. [94]
	Hyper-intense on T1 and T2 mixed sequence	Majidi et al. [83]
Intraplaque hemorrhage	Hyper-intense on fat-suppressed T1	Chen et al. [80]
Lipid core	Hypo-intense on fat-suppressed T1	Yang et al. [81]
	Hyper-intense on T1	Turan et al. [94]
	Hypo-intense on T2 and T2*	Jiang et al. [82], van der Kolk et al. [84]
Calcification	Hypo-intense on T1 and T2	Turan et al. [94]
Neovasculature	Contrast enhancement?
Inflammation	Contrast enhancement?