From inflammation to calcification in atherosclerosis

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
² Molecular Imaging and Therapy Section, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. harry.strauss@gmail.com.

Editorial

Takehiro Nakahara et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;44(5):858-860.

doi: 10.1007/s00259-016-3608-x.

¹ Cardiovascular Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
² Molecular Imaging and Therapy Section, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. harry.strauss@gmail.com.

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