Robust quantitative assessment of collagen fibers with picrosirius red stain and linearly polarized light as demonstrated on atherosclerotic plaque samples

• Cherry Greiner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cherry Greiner, Stephanie Grainger

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

  * E-mail: cgreiner@infraredx.com

  Affiliation Infraredx, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4679-3440

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• Stephanie Grainger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cherry Greiner, Stephanie Grainger

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

  Affiliation Infraredx, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Samantha Farrow,

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

  Affiliation Infraredx, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alena Davis,

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

  Affiliation Cytiva, Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jimmy L. Su,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Philips Healthcare, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Matthew D. Saybolt,

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

  Affiliation Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Robert Wilensky,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sean Madden,

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

  Affiliation Lumicell, Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Stephen T. Sum

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infraredx, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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