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Figure 3. Transverse CT scan shows a mildly calcific lesion in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) in a 59-year-old patient who had hypertension and hypercholesterolemia and who sustained acute myocardial infarction. To enable identification of the minimally calcific lesion within the region of interest (a), automatic highlighting of the calcification was used, which colored the calcification gray. This patient’s TCS was 27.