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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Intracranial atherosclerosis rank correlation between the degree of Of: Zhoufen Li Wu Jun, Chen Huai, Hai-Ou Zhang Jing [Abstract] Purpose intracranial and outside the extent of atherosclerosis related level. Methods of acute cerebral infarction 122 routine head 3D TOF MRA and carotid artery ultrasound, measuring the number of patients with intracranial atherosclerotic articles, carotid artery thickness ( intima media thickness, IMT) and luminal stenosis, plaque. the result of intracranial atherosclerosis constitute more than 80% stenosis 13.9%, 61.5% of carotid plaques. with IMT thickening (Spearman correlation coefficient 0.26, P = 0.004) and increased the number of carotid plaques (Spearman correlation coefficient was 0.348, P lt;0.001), intracranial atherosclerosis there is a growing trend in the number of articles. Conclusion Carotid atherosclerosis is predictive of intracranial atherosclerosis the degree of sclerosis. [Key Words] Intracranial atherosclerosis; cerebral infarction; carotid atherosclerosis The carotid and intracranial atherosclerosis is the body a part of atherosclerosis, their mechanisms of different stroke incidence and prognosis. Carotid artery ultrasonography can clearly show and internal carotid artery plaque thickness (IMT) , is the detection of carotid atherosclerosis in the most common means. intracranial arteriosclerosis detection can use the DSA, CTA, or transcranial Doppler and the MRA. which noninvasive MRA, three-dimensional, compared with DSA, MRA of the intracranial artery occlusion and stenosis The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of 80% and 100%, and rates of agreement, close to the DSA (1). However, due to expensive, not routinely used in clinical. In this study, the joint use of 3D TOF MRA head and neck intracranial artery color Doppler analysis of the situation atherosclerosis and plaque and carotid IMT relation, to provide indications for the clinical application of MRA. 1 Subj