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Figure 3 Increased Wall Thickness in Hyperlipidemic Rabbits
Representative black-blood turbo field-echo imaging (A, B, and D) and black-blood turbo spin-echo imaging baseline images (C, E, and F) of the aortic wall in Watanabe (A to C) and control rabbits (D to F). Watanabe rabbits exhibited increased wall thickness in the thoracic (*p < 0.001 vs. control rabbits) and in the abdominal aorta ( p < 0.001 vs. control rabbits) (G). Wall thickness measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) correlated closely with histology on matched slices (H) (asymptotic concordance of 0.73, p < 0.0001).
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