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. 2016 Feb 19;118(4):750–769. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.306247

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Circulation Research is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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Figure 4. — Positron emission tomography (PET) inflammation imaging. Computed tomographic (CT) angiography of symptomatic left internal carotid stenosis (arrows); sagittal (A) and axial (C) views. B, D, Fused ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET–CT demonstrates high uptake relating to the symptomatic carotid plaque. E, Coronary CT angiogram of left circumflex coronary artery lesion (red arrow) with spotty calcification (white arrows); F, fused ⁶⁸Ga-DOTATATE PET–CT demonstrates high signal in relation to the inflamed coronary plaque.