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Identification of vulnerable carotid plaque with histologically validated CT-derived plaque maps

Daniel Obaid Orcid Logo, Ike Okonji, Suk F Cheng, Argyrios A Giannopoulos, Pragash Kamalathevan, Julian Halcox Orcid Logo, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Toby Richards

The British Journal of Radiology, Volume: 96, Issue: 1147

Swansea University Authors: Daniel Obaid Orcid Logo, Julian Halcox Orcid Logo

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Objectives: Ruptured carotid plaque causes stroke, but differentiating rupture-prone necrotic core from fibrous tissue with CT is limited by overlap of X-ray attenuation. We investigated the ability of CT-derived plaque maps created from ratios of plaque/contrast attenuation to identify histological...

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