Vasa vasorum of proximal cerebral arteries after dural crossing — potential imaging confounder in diagnosing intracranial vasculitis in elderly subjects on black-blood MRI

• Published in: European radiology Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 1276 - 1284
• Main Authors: Guggenberger, Konstanze Viktoria, Torre, Giulia Dalla, Ludwig, Ute, Vogel, Patrick, Weng, Andreas Max, Vogt, Marius Lothar, Fröhlich, Matthias, Schmalzing, Marc, Raithel, Esther, Forman, Christoph, Urbach, Horst, Meckel, Stephan, Bley, Thorsten Alexander
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Arteries; Arteriosclerosis; Atherosclerosis; Blood vessels; Cerebral Arteries; Diagnostic Radiology; Gadolinium; Humans; Image enhancement; Image resolution; Imaging; Internal Medicine; Interventional Radiology; Magnetic Resonance; Magnetic Resonance Angiography; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Malignancy; Medical diagnosis; Medical imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metastases; Morphology; Neuroradiology; Older people; Radiology; Segments; Ultrasound; Vasa Vasorum - diagnostic imaging; Vasculitis; Vertebrae; Vasa vasorum; Vertebral artery; Atherosclerosis, intracranial arteries; Magnetic resonance imaging; Large artery vasculitis

Objectives Vessel wall enhancement (VWE) may be commonly seen on MRI images of asymptomatic subjects. This study aimed to characterize the VWE of the proximal internal carotid (ICA) and vertebral arteries (VA) in a non-vasculitic elderly patient cohort. Methods Cranial MRI scans at 3 Tesla were perf...