About the Authors

Zhen-Nan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen-Nan Li, Wei-Hua Yin

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Wei-Hua Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhen-Nan Li, Wei-Hua Yin

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Bin Lu

blu@vip.sina.com

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hong-Bing Yan

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Chao-Wei Mu

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yang Gao

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Hui Hou

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Qiang Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Kun Liu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Ashley H. Parinella

Affiliation Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Jonathon A. Leipsic

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZNL WHY BL HBY CWM YG ZHH ZQW KL JAL AHP. Performed the experiments: ZNL WHY BL HBY CWM YG ZHH ZQW KL. Analyzed the data: ZNL WHY YG AHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZNL WHY BL HBY CWM YG ZHH ZQW KL. Wrote the paper: AHP.