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Detecting human coronary inflammation by imaging perivascular fat

Picturing plaques and imaging inflammation To determine risk of future coronary artery disease, calcium content in vascular plaques is typically evaluated by coronary calcium scoring, which uses computerized tomography (CT) imaging. To detect inflammation and subclinical coronary artery disease (soft, noncalcified plaques), Antonopoulos et al. developed an alternative metric called the perivascular CT fat attenuation index (FAI)....