This review illustrates current applications and possible future directions of 7Tesla (7T) Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the field of brain MRI, in clinical studies as well as clinical …

… van der Kolk … van der Kolk … Reproduced from van der Kolk et al 68 with kind
permission of the publisher. Copyright © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media. …

… Harteveld AA, van der Kolk AG, van der Worp HB, et al. High-resolution intracranial vessel
wall MRI in an elderly asymptomatic population: comparison of 3T and 7T. Eur Radiol 2017;27…

Background and Purpose— Conventional imaging methods cannot depict the vessel wall of
intracranial arteries at sufficient resolutions. This hampers the evaluation of intracranial …

… Van Gils MJ, Vukadinovic D, Van Dijk AC, Dippel DW, Niessen WJ, Van der Lugt A. Carotid
atherosclerotic plaque progression and change in plaque composition over … AG van der Kolk …

… Profs van der Lugt and Kooi contributed equally to this work. … Profs van der Lugt and Kooi
contributed equally to this work. … van der Geest for providing VesselMASS software and Elucid …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Several studies have attempted to characterize intracranial
atherosclerotic plaques by using MR imaging sequences. However, dedicated validation of …

Background and Purpose— Intracranial atherosclerosis is a major cause of ischemic stroke
worldwide. Intracranial vessel wall imaging is an upcoming field of interest to assess …

… Image quality was evaluated using the method modified from Van der Kolk et al. [15], with
three qualitative grading scales for overall artefacts (0 = artefacts hampering assessment; 1 = …

Objectives Intracranial vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may improve the
diagnosis of vessel wall abnormalities. Current methods are hampered by limited coverage and …