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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Apr;3(4):352–360. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.12.013

Figure 3.

Figure 3

A representative example of pericardial fat volume (PFV) and thoracic fat volume (TFV) quantification in matched patients with very high coronary calcium scores (CCS). Within each panel, the top row shows standard coronal, axial, and sagittal (left to right) CT displays of the heart, and the bottom row shows the same images with superimposed detection of pericardial fat (red) and thoracic fat (red and yellow). Top panel images are from a 73 year-old man with a CCS of 3121 who suffered a nonfatal myocardial infarction 99 days after the noncontrast CT. His PFV was 170 cm3 and TFV was 329 cm3. Bottom panel images are from a matched 70 year-old event-free man with a CCS of 2689. His PFV was 78 cm3 and TFV was 137 cm3.