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Fatty Arteries to 'Go Green' With New Screening Technique (4 of 9)

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Fatty Arteries to 'Go Green' With New Screening Technique (4 of 9)

image: Oil red O (ORO) stain of neutral lipid of an atheroma histological section, from an ICG-injected animal. 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.” view more 

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