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Imaging of inflammation in atherosclerotic lesions may identify plaques vulnerable to rupture, and lead to better assessment of individuals at risk for acute coronary events such as myocardial infarction (pages 636–641).

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Figure 1: Picturing a popcorn plaque.

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  1. Jagat Narula is at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California 92705, USA. narula@uci.edu,

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  2. H. William Strauss is at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA.,

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Narula, J., Strauss, H. The popcorn plaques. Nat Med 13, 532–534 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0507-532

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