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From: Feasibility of resuscitation contrast-enhanced postmortem computed tomography using cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique with chest compression immediately after death

Figure 2

A 38-year-old man died for thromboembolism of pulmonary artery. Detection of thrombi is difficult with PMCT (a). On a resuscitation CEPMCT image, CT value of the pulmonary arterial trunk was 269 HU, and that of thromboemboli in the pulmonary artery was 54 HU. The filling defects in the pulmonary artery indicated the presence of thromboemboli (b).

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