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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 4.

Figure 4

Representative 3D and 2D images with (post-contrast) and without contrast agent (pre-contrast) for a patient with a severe stenosis of left vertebral artery on contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA). A long atherosclerotic plaque detected at the corresponding location (arrows) on both 3D whole-brain and targeted vessel wall imaging (VWI) is considered as vulnerable plaque with obvious enhancement on post-contrast images. The post-contrast whole-brain image exhibits similar enhancement of the plaque to the 2D turbo spin echo (TSE) image, but more enhancement than the post-contrast targeted image.