Patrick W. Serruys1, MD, PhD; Ply Chichareon2,3, MD; Rodrigo Modolo2,4, MD; David M. Leaman5, MD; Johan H.C. Reiber6, PhD; Håkan Emanuelsson7, MD; Carlo Di Mario8, MD, PhD; Nico H.J. Pijls9,10, MD, PhD; Marie-Angèle Morel11, BSc; Marco Valgimigli12, MD, PhD; Vasim Farooq13, MD, PhD; David van Klaveren14, PhD; Davide Capodanno15, MD, PhD; Daniele Andreini16,17, MD, PhD; Christos V. Bourantas18, MD, PhD; Justin Davies1, MD, PhD; Adrian P. Banning19, MD; Javier Escaned20, MD, PhD; Jan J. Piek2, MD, PhD; Mauro Echavarría-Pinto2, MD, PhD; Charles Anthony Taylor21, PhD; Brian Thomsen22, MSc; Carlos Collet2,23, MD; Giulio Pompilio16,17, MD, PhD; Antonio L. Bartorelli16,24, MD; Ben Glocker25, PhD; Ovidiu Dressler26, MD; Gregg W. Stone27, MD; Yoshinobu Onuma28, MD, PhD
1. NHLI, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 2. Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 3. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand; 4. Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Division, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil; 5. Milton Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Heart and Vascular Institute, Hershey, PA, USA; 6. Department of Radiology, Division of Image Processing, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; 7. Astra Charnwood Clinical R and D, Loughborough, United Kingdom; 8. Division of Structural Interventional Cardiology, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy; 9. Department of Cardiology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 10. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 11. Cardialysis BV, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 12. Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; 13. University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom; 14. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 15. Division of Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria “Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele”, Catania, Italy; 16. Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Milan, Italy; 17. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 18. Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; 19. Oxford Heart Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom; 20. Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain; 21. HeartFlow, Redwood City, CA, USA; 22. GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA; 23. Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium; 24. Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “Luigi Sacco”, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 25. Biomedical Image Analysis Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; 26. Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA; 27. The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY, USA; 28. Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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