Total plaque score helps to determine follow-up strategy for carotid artery stenosis progression in head and neck cancer patients after radiation therapy

• Chi-Hung Liu ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally and are co-first authors.

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally and are co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Tsong-Hai Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Pi-Yueh Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Chien-Hung Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hsiu-Chuan Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Ting-Yu Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Lun Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Chien-Yu Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Particle Physics and Beam Delivery Core Laboratory of Institute for Radiological Research, Chang Gung University/Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Kang-Hsing Fan,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Proton and Radiation Therapy Center, Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Taipei Chang Gung Head & Neck Oncology Group, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Chan-Lin Chu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Yeu-Jhy Chang

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

  * E-mail: yjc0601@cgmh.org.tw

  Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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