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No. Only smooth-to-medium reconstruction kernel will be used.
In clinical practice, sharp reconstruction is used only to help the radiologist quantifying calcified plaque on CTA.
As sharp reconstruction image is not used in the stenoses detection process, we decided to only provide the smooth-to-medium reconstruction of the CTA image, both for the (semi-)automatic analysis and visual inspection.

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No.
OCT will not be used as reference standard in the proposed evaluation framework, as it is not a routine exam in current clinical practice.

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No.
No distinction between image quality will be made, as all the images included in our study are of diagnostic image quality.