Added Value of Vessel Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Differentiation of Moyamoya Vasculopathies in a Non-Asian Cohort
Mossa-Basha M, de Havenon A, Becker KJ, Hallam DK, Levitt MR, Cohen WA, Hippe DS, Alexander MD, Tirschwell DL, Hatsukami T, Amlie-Lefond C, Yuan C. Added Value of Vessel Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Differentiation of Moyamoya Vasculopathies in a Non-Asian Cohort. Stroke 2016, 47: 1782-1788. PMID: 27272486, PMCID: PMC4927346, DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.116.013320.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVessel wall magnetic resonance imagingMagnetic resonance imagingMoyamoya diseaseLuminal imagingInter-reader agreementMoyamoya vasculopathyResonance imagingCarotid artery territoryNon-Asian cohortsMoyamoya disease casesPattern of involvementT2 signal characteristicsArtery territoryCarotid diseaseCollateral gradingConcentric lesionsCollateral extentPostcontrast enhancementMRI characteristicsHeterogeneous enhancementMulticontrast protocolClinical dataCarotid segmentsHeterogeneous lesionsT2 heterogeneity