Morphological and Stress Vulnerability Indices for Human Coronary Plaques and Their Correlations with Cap Thickness and Lipid Percent: An IVUS-Based Fluid-Structure Interaction Multi-patient Study

• Liang Wang,

  Affiliation Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jie Zheng,

  Affiliation Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Akiko Maehara,

  Affiliation The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Chun Yang,

  Affiliations Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States of America, Network Technology Research Institute, China United Network Communications Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

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• Kristen L. Billiar,

  Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Zheyang Wu,

  Affiliation Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Richard Bach,

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• David Muccigrosso,

  Affiliation Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Gary S. Mintz,

  Affiliation The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Dalin Tang

  * E-mail: dtang@wpi.edu

  Affiliations Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States of America, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

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