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ABSTRACT

Associations between Carotid Bifurcation Geometry and Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability: A Chinese Atherosclerosis Risk Evaluation II Study

Peirong Jiang¹, Zhensen Chen², Daniel S. Hippe², Hiroko Watase³, Bin Sun¹, Ruolan Lin¹, Zheting Yang¹, Yunjing Xue^1,*, Xihai Zhao^4,*, Chun Yuan^2,4

1 Department of Radiology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, 350001, China.
2 Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States.
3 Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States.
4 Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
* Corresponding Author: Yunjing Xue, Email: xueyunjing@126.com; Xihai Zhao., Email: xihaizhao@tsinghua.edu.cn.