Thinner Regions of Intracranial Aneurysm Wall Correlate with Regions of Higher Wall Shear Stress: A 7T MRI Study.
R BlankenaR KleinloogB H VerweijPim van OoijBernard Ten HakenPeter R LuijtenGabriël J E RinkelJaco J M ZwanenburgPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2016)
A method was developed to measure the wall thickness semi-quantitatively, by using 7T MR imaging. An inverse correlation between wall shear stress and apparent wall thickness was determined. In future studies, this noninvasive method can be used to assess spatial wall thickness variation in relation to pathophysiologic processes such as aneurysm growth and rupture.