Periaortic adipose radiomics texture features associated with increased coronary calcium score-first results on a photon-counting-CT.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateInstitutional Review Board approval was acquired for this study (ID 2021–659, Ethikkommission II, University Heidelberg). Written informed consent from all patients was acquired as part of this study. All investigations were conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publicationN/A. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This project is part of the Photon-Counting Consortium Baden-Württemberg (PC3) funded by Gesundheitsstandort Baden-Württemberg. The funding body played no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, interpretation of data, and in writing the manuscript."