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Dr Justin E Davies, International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, 59-61 North Wharf Road, London W2 1LA, UK; justin.davies@imperial.ac.uk
All authors have contributed to the submitted manuscript. This is summarised as follows: SSN, SS, RP, CB, NF, NH, JED and ADH, JM, were involved in: the conception, design, analysis and interpretation of the data; drafting of the manuscript and revising it critically for intellectual content; final approval of manuscript. RS, RKK, IM, GWM, RAF, ASS, RRK, CSB, MFB, MAK, MAl-B, CDiM and JED were involved in data collection, analysis and interpretation; drafting and revising the manuscript and final approval of the submitted manuscript.
The authors would like to thank the catheter lab staff at the Hammersmith Hospital, London and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford for their support. This study would not have been possible without their ongoing commitment to research.
JED and JM hold intellectual property pertaining to this technology, which is under licence to Volcano Corporation. JED is a consultant for Volcano Corporation.
SSN (G1100443) and SS (G1000357) are Medical Research Council fellows. RP (FS/11/46/28861), JED (FS/05/006) and Dr Francis (FS 10/038) are British Heart Foundation fellows. The study also received support from National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London, UK.
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