A Victorian plaque and tooled metal handle with vignettes of the Pilgrims' voyage and landing at Plymouth Rock commemorates the 66-day journey from Barbican Sutton, the medieval village and port in Plymouth, to Cape Cod.
The finding could eventually lead to the development of toothpaste that harnesses the body's own plaque-fighting tools.
Intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) has recently been proposed as a high-resolution imaging tool for plaque characterisation.
However, much more can be expected from serial evaluation of an atherosclerotic plaque with clinical imaging tools because this will truly provide insight into the natural history of atherosclerotic plaque and into the causal association of changes in plaque composition and clinical events.
Since the rupture-prone plaques commonly contain high amounts of activated macrophages, imaging of the macrophages may provide a useful tool for determining plaque vulnerability [1 5].
Whether the enhancement of MCA plaques is a good prognostic tool for ischemic stroke needs to be confirmed in a larger patient cohort and follow-up studies.
He acknowledged that the plaque would be a useful marketing tool for Hull as it attempts to assert its cultural credentials.
The present study was designed to verify whether the evaluation of femoral plaque echogenicity might be a useful tool for cardiovascular risk assessment in patients affected by lower extremity peripheral arterial disease.
Since rupture-prone plaques commonly contain high amounts of activated macrophages, imaging of the macrophage content may provide a useful tool for the evaluation of plaque vulnerability.
Rudd et al. and Tawakol et al. reported that carotid atherosclerotic plaques with high 18F-FDG uptake have a high macrophage density [20, 21], indicating that 18F-FDG might be a useful tool to detect inflammatory plaques.
