MR Plaque Grant Web Page - Newest Results

Newly scanned arteries:
- 13 diseased human femoral arteries - T1, T2, PD, PLIS (PLIS=special plaque imaging sequence)
  - (see examples below)
Publications:
- An abstract entitled "Arterial wall and plaque layer identification in volumetric MR images to assist non-invasive plaque vulnerability assessment" was submitted to 2001 American Heart Association Scientific Session
  - (see Abstract text as a PDF file)

University of Iowa

College of Engineering

Examples of newly scanned arteries

(The above MR images acquired by co-investigator Dr. R. Stollberger at a collaboration site at Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria; participant in the proposed subcontract with Institute of Structural Analysis, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.)

Last Modified: May 7, 2001

Mark E. Olszewski