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Caption: In this OFDI image of the stented coronary artery of a pig, taken in vivo, the red reflects the inner arterial surface and the stent is represented as blue. The outer layers of the artery, exposed when the vessel was overstressed by an overinflated balloon catheter, appear as grey.
Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital-Wellman Center for Photomedicine
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