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ABSTRACT

Impact of Plaque Erosion on Stress/Strain and Flow Shear Stress Calculation: An OCT-Based FSI Modeling Study

Liang Wang¹, Haibo Jia², Luping He², Rui Lv¹, Xiaoya Guo³, Chun Yang^4,5, Don P. Giddens^6,7, Habib Samady⁶, Akiko Maehara⁸, Gary S. Mintz⁸, Dalin Tang^1,*,5

1 School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
2 Department of Cardiology, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150086, China.
3 Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
4 Network Technology Research Institute, China United Network Comm. Co., Ltd., Beijing 10048, China.
5 Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.
6 Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA.
7 The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
8 The Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10022, USA.
* Corresponding Author: Dalin Tang. Email: dtang@wpi.edu.