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Figure 3 A 57-year-old male patient with known two-vessel disease and prior multiple right circumflex artery and left anterior descending coronary artery percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasties. With a favorable Agatston score (39) and a heart rate below 65 beats/min, an excellent image quality is obtained, which is displayed in the maximum intensity projection image (a). Severe left anterior descending coronary artery lesion is visualized by multislice spiral computed tomography; the arrows indicate the begin and end of the lesion. (b) Corresponding conventional coronary angiography image; the arrows also indicate beginning and end of the lesion.