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Background Atherosclerosis and its complications are the major cause of mortality all over the world.It is reported recently that profilin-1,an intracellular actinbinding protein,plays a pivotal role on progression of atherosclerotic lesions.The rationale of our study was to use a novel molecular imaging probe to assess atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability invasively by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).