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. 2023 Feb 3;16(2):e014672. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.122.014672

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 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 1. — Pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation on computed tomography angiography (CCTA). Multiplanar reconstructions of CCTA scans showing mixed plaques in the proximal (right) and middle (left) left anterior descending coronary artery, with surrounding pericoronary adipose tissue (orange-yellow colored areas) across a precursor of a culprit lesion of a patient who developed an ACS (left) and across a lesion of a patient with stable CAD (right). ACS indicates acute coronary syndrome; CAD, coronary artery disease; and HU, Hounsfield units.