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Method for ROI section. Left and center images show slice range chosen to comprise cephalocaudal limits of focal area of tracer uptake in proximal aorta (arrows) and right image shows region (yellow line) denoting area boundaries of the 5-voxel-thick slice from which activity in mCi is determined using software algorithm (see text).
