Fatty Arteries to 'Go Green' With New Screening Technique (9 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Fatty Arteries to 'Go Green' With New Screening Technique (9 of 9)

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Fluorescence microscopy image of Evans blue profile in the same atheroma section. In this animal, Evans Blue was injected along with ICG. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 25, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. C. Vinegoni of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., and colleagues, was titled, “Indocyanine Green Enables Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Lipid-Rich, Inflamed Atherosclerotic Plaques.”

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