动脉粥样硬化(atherosclerosis,AS)是系统性、进展性病理过程,累及全身血管、心、脑等多个器官部位的病变,导致组织缺血和坏死,发生心肌梗死、脑卒中等严重后果。AS已成为我国常见的一种血管病变,发病率和死亡率不断上升。随着影像技术的不断发展,影像学在动脉硬化的诊断中发挥 Atherosclerosis (AS) is a systemic and progressive pathological process involving lesions of multiple organs such as blood vessels, heart, brain and other organs, leading to tissue ischemia and necrosis, myocardial infarction, stroke and other serious consequences. AS has become a common vascular disease in our country, the morbidity and mortality are rising. With the continuous development of imaging technology, imaging studies in the diagnosis of atherosclerosis play