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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2025

Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the human carotid artery: Assessing sensitivity to elastin and collagen ex vivo.

Alan J Stone, Brooke Tornifoglio, Francesco Digeronimo, Karin Shmueli, Caitríona Lally

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Alan J StoneTrinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-5188-4323
Brooke TornifoglioTrinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-4359-9012
Francesco DigeronimoTrinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-8098-318X
Karin ShmueliDepartment of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7520-2975
Caitríona LallyTrinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-4141-1685

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Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) 18/EPSRCCDT/3581European Research Council (ERC) SFN 770939European Union 637674H2020 European Research Council
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Abstract

purposeThe aim is to establish the relationship between carotid susceptibility and microstructural components in diseased carotid arteries.

methodsExcised cadaveric carotid arteries (n = 5) were scanned using high-resolution QSM at 7 Tesla. After ex vivo imaging, all samples were brought to histology and stained for elastin, collagen, cells, and calcium. An image registration pipeline was used in combination with semi-quantitative, regional histology analysis to evaluate relationships between MRI and microstructural components.

resultsWeak, non-significant (p > 0.05) correlations were found between all components and regional magnitude and R

conclusionTissue magnetic susceptibility in diseased human carotid arteries was shown to be significantly correlated with the dominant microstructural components of pathological human cadaver samples-elastin and collagen. Knowing that elastin and collagen are disrupted in vascular disease progression, QSM offers clinically translatable potential for novel disease biomarkers.

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Carotid ArteriesCollagenElastinMagnetic Resonance AngiographyMagnetic Resonance ImagingAgedCadaverFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityCollagenElastinarterial tissueatherosclerosiscollagenelastinquantitative susceptibility mapping

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PMID40152350
PMCPMC12137788

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