A new imaging technique can spot potential clots in arteries.
Current heart-imaging techniques can identify arterial plaques, but they can't distinguish stable plaques from unstable ones likely to break off and cause clots.
A relatively new laser imaging technology called optical-coherence tomography, on the other hand, can.
[For an image from this new imaging technology, click here.]
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