Advanced MRI markers of cerebral small vessel disease
Abstract
The overarching theme throughout this thesis is the exploration of new and the improvement of existing methods of measuring neurovascular pathology using MRI techniques and postprocessing. As cerebrovascular afflictions are not located at a single location, these methods are applied throughout the cerebrovascular tree. This thesis starts with the large (macro) arteries (chapter 2), to the function of (micro) arteries (chapters 3 and 4), to remnants of hemorrhages in brain tissue (chapter 5), to finally the venous compartment (chapter 6), and takes into account both structure and function of selected parts of the cerebrovascular tree.
Magnetic resonance imagingCerebral small vessel diseaseCerebral amyloid angiopathy
