Quantitative assessment of intestinal stiffness and associations with fibrosis in human inflammatory bowel disease

• Daniel C. Stewart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel C. Stewart, Dalton Berrie

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8248-4288

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• Dalton Berrie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel C. Stewart, Dalton Berrie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Axogen Inc., Alachua, FL, United States of America

  Affiliations J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Jian Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Xinyue Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Cooper Rickerson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• David Mkoji,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Atif Iqbal,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9741-4119

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• Sanda Tan,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3462-4503

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• Andria L. Doty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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• Sarah C. Glover,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9899-0473

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• Chelsey S. Simmons

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: css@ufl.edu

  Affiliations J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

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