Johnson, Nils P.
Gould, K. Lance
Article History
First Online: 12 February 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: NPJ and KLG received internal funding from the Weatherhead PET Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis and have a patent pending on diagnostic methods for quantifying aortic stenosis and TAVI physiology, unrelated to the current manuscript.NPJ has an institutional licensing and consulting agreement with Boston Scientific for the smart minimum FFR algorithm and has received significant institutional research support from St. Jude Medical (CONTRAST, NCT02184117) and Philips Volcano Corporation (DEFINE-FLOW, NCT02328820) for studies using intracoronary pressure and flow sensors.KLG is the 510(k) applicant for CFR Quant (K113754) and HeartSee (K143664 and K171303), software packages for cardiac positron emission tomography image processing, analysis, and absolute flow quantification.
: All reported studies/experiments with human or animal subjects performed by the authors have been previously published and complied with all applicable ethical standards (including the Helsinki declaration and its amendments, institutional/national research committee standards, and international/national/institutional guidelines).