BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: An important characteristic of vulnerable plaque, intraplaque
hemorrhage, may predict plaque rupture. Plaque rupture can be visible on noninvasive …

… van Dijk MD b , Stijn CH van den Oord MD c d , Burhan Hussain MSc b , Hence JM Verhagen
MD, PhD e , Eric JG Sijbrands MD, PhD a , Antonius FW van der Steen PhD d , Aad van …

Background Patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis are at high risk for recurrent
stroke. To date, the decision to perform carotid endarterectomy in patients with a recent …

… van Dijk a , Geneviève AJC Crombag b , Carlo Lucci c , M. Eline Kooi b , Jeroen Hendrikse
… van der Steen have designed the study. GAJC Crombag, DHK van Dam-Nolen, AC van Dijk …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Serial in vivo imaging of atherosclerosis is important for
understanding plaque progression and is potentially useful in predicting cardiovascular events …

Background and Purpose— Nonlacunar cerebral infarcts are presumed to be caused by
thromboembolism from the heart or extracranial arteries, whereas lacunar infarcts are thought to …

… van Dijk b c , Evita G. van den Herik b , Janine E. van Loon a , Lonneke ML de Lau b ,
Aad van der Lugt c , Peter J. Koudstaal b , Moniek PM de Maat a , Frank WG Leebeek a …

Automated segmentation of plaque components in carotid artery magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) is important to enable large studies on plaque vulnerability, and for incorporating …

Introduction Head and neck cancers (HNC) are relatively fast-growing tumours, and delay in
treatment initiation is associated with tumour progression and adverse outcome. An …

Information on epidemiology is essential to evaluate care for the growing group of oral cancer
patients. We investigated trends in incidence, mortality and relative survival rates for oral …