Review Article

Carotid Artery Disease and Stroke: Assessing Risk with Vessel Wall MRI

Table 2

Summary of studies reporting sensitivity and specificity for MRI detection of intraplaque hemorrhage in carotid atherosclerosis.

SourceImaging method(s)Sensitivity (%)Specificity (%)

Moody et al. 2003 [20]MP-RAGE8484
Chu et al. 2004 [21]FSE and TOF9074
Kampschulte et al. 2004 [22]FSE and TOF9682
Bitar et al. 2008 [23]GRE10080
Yim et al. 2008 [24]TOF9183
Ota et al. 2010 [25]MP-RAGE8097
Qiao et al. 2011 [26]CE-MRA mask8799