Whole-brain magnetic resonance imaging of plaque burden and lenticulostriate arteries in patients with different types of stroke

Large-vessel atherosclerotic disease is an important pathogenesis of deep-perforator infarction (DPI). However, altered vessel walls of intracranial large arteries and distribution of small arteries in DPI are unclear because of the limited resolution of current imaging techniques. In this study the intracranial plaque burden and lenticulostriate artery (LSA) distribution in patients with recent DPI and non-DPI using whole-brain vessel-wall imaging (WB-VWI) were investigated