Zhu, Chengcheng http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6898-549X
Tian, Bing
Chen, Luguang
Eisenmenger, Laura
Raithel, Esther
Forman, Christoph
Ahn, Sinyeob
Laub, Gerhard
Liu, Qi
Lu, Jianping
Liu, Jing
Hess, Christopher
Saloner, David
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K99HL136883, R01HL114118)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS059944)
Article History
Received: 28 June 2017
Revised: 16 November 2017
Accepted: 22 November 2017
First Online: 5 December 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Esther Raithel, Christoph Forman, Gerhard Laub and Sinyeob Ahn are employees of Siemens. Other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was conducted under IRB approval of the University of California San Francisco (reference number: 10-03248) and Changhai Hospital in Shanghai (reference number: CHEC2013-204).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.