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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Probl Cardiol. 2009 Apr;34(4):145–217. doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2008.12.002

FIG 15.

FIG 15

In typical patients with known coronary artery disease, dense lesion calcification with associated blooming artifact can lead to overestimation of lesion (arrows) severity or can preclude assessment of densely calcified segments altogether.