Imaging biomarkers of vulnerable carotid plaques for stroke risk prediction and their potential clinical implications

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. Electronic address: lucasaba@tiscali.it.
• ² Department of Radiology, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany; Radiologisches Zentrum Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany.
• ³ Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, University College London Institute of Neurology, London, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁷ The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.