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CA is supported by the British Heart Foundation (FS/16/15/32047 and TG/19/2/34831), the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and Innovate UK.

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AA and CA are inventors of intellectual property relevant to CT imaging (AA/CA: GB2015/052359, GR2018/0100490, GR2018/0100510; CA: GB2015/052359, GB2016/1620494.3, GB2018/1818049.9). CA is founder, shareholder, and director of Caristo Diagnostics Ltd., a spin-out company of the University of Oxford; he is also head of Oxford Academic Cardiovascular CT Core lab.

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Antonopoulos, A.S., Antoniades, C. Reply to: Quantification of perivascular inflammation does not provide incremental prognostic value over myocardial perfusion imaging and calcium scoring. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48, 1707–1708 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-020-05171-5

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