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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2021 Feb 15;54(1):166–174. doi: 10.1002/jmri.27550

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Representative vessel wall images acquired with 3D whole-brain and targeted vessel wall imaging (VWI) for a patient with a brain stem infarct. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) shows a slight stenosis of the basilar artery (arrow) and a severe stenosis of the right posterior cerebral artery (arrowhead). All scans of 3D whole-brain and targeted VWI provide good depiction of the two plaques at the corresponding location (arrow and arrowhead) except plaques at the right posterior cerebral artery were missed by targeted VWI due to the limited target coverage. The plaque is considered to be the culprit lesion with obvious enhancement on a post-contrast image.