Atherosclerosis is associated with a decrease in cerebral microvascular blood flow and tissue oxygenation

• Baoqiang Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Baoqiang Li, Xuecong Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2992-3303

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• Xuecong Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Baoqiang Li, Xuecong Lu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada

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• Mohammad Moeini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

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• Sava Sakadžić,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States of America

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• Eric Thorin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada

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• Frederic Lesage

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frederic.lesage@polymtl.ca

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada

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