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Nonrigid Registration Of Three-Dimensional Ultrasound And Magnetic Resonance Images Of The Carotid Arteries, Nuwan D Nanayakkara, Bernard Chiu, Abbas Samani, J David Spence, Jagath Samarabandu, Grace Parraga, Aaron Fenster

Medical Biophysics Publications

Atherosclerosis at the carotid bifurcation can result in cerebral emboli, which in turn can block the blood supply to the brain causing ischemic strokes. Noninvasive imaging tools that better characterize arterial wall, and atherosclerotic plaque structure and composition may help to determine the factors which lead to the development of unstable lesions, and identify patients at risk of plaque disruption and stroke. Carotid magnetic resonance (MR) imaging allows for the characterization of carotid vessel wall and plaque composition, the characterization of normal and pathological arterial wall, the quantification of plaque size, and the detection of plaque integrity. On the other …