Molecular imaging of MMP activity discriminates unstable from stable plaque phenotypes in shear-stress induced murine atherosclerosis

• Robert Seifert ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robert.seifert@uni-muenster.de

  Affiliations European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-7701

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• Michael T. Kuhlmann,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Sarah Eligehausen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Friedemann Kiefer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, DFG EXC 1003 Cluster of Excellence ‘Cells in Motion’, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany

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• Sven Hermann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Hermann, Michael Schäfers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, DFG EXC 1003 Cluster of Excellence ‘Cells in Motion’, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Michael Schäfers

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Hermann, Michael Schäfers

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany, DFG EXC 1003 Cluster of Excellence ‘Cells in Motion’, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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