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Assessing left main disease with FFR-CT and its challenges

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Ming-Yen Ng’s work is partly supported by the the Sanming Gong Grant (No. SZSM201911020), Shenzhen Government.

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Jessica Poon, Tsz Yu Law, Yan Wing Ivonne Ho & Ming-Yen Ng

  2. Department of Medicine, Ruttonjee and Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Jessica Poon

  3. Department of Medical Imaging, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

    Ming-Yen Ng

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Ming-Yen Ng has received funding from Bayer, GE, Arterys, TeraRecon and Circle Cardiovascular Imaging. Jessica Poon, Tsz Yu Law and Yan Wing Ivonne Ho have no conflict of interest to declare.

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Poon, J., Law, T.Y., Ho, Y.W.I. et al. Assessing left main disease with FFR-CT and its challenges. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 37, 3309–3311 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-021-02404-y

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