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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 29.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2008 May 20;18(11):2466–2474. doi: 10.1007/s00330-008-1019-5

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Virtual plaque histology in DSCT and IVUS. In an axial MIP, the arrow indicates a non-calcified plaque in segment 6 of the LAD (a). Cross-sectional images of the vessel with color coding are presented for visual adjustment of the maps (b) or HU-based segmentation (c) as well as for grey-scale IVUS (d) and IVUS-VH (e). For IVUS-VH, red indicates necrotic core, light green the fatty-fibrous, dark green the fibrous and white the calcified plaque. In this lesion, total plaque volumes with visual CT evaluation, HU-based analysis or IVUS were 66.6 mm3, 55.8 mm3 or 53.1 mm3 respectively