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Fig. 1. 45-year-old woman who presented with chest pain and hypoxia.
Selected axial image from CTPA performed on single-detector CT scanner shows
filling defects in main pulmonary arteries bilaterally, illustrating
established ability of this technique to reveal emboli in proximal pulmonary
vasculature.