Fig. 8.

A fragile lipid core and a strip of intraplaque hemorrhage (A: the fragile lipid core enclosed by the yellow dashed line could dissolve away in the saline solution that made it inappropriate for extension testing; B: four markers were placed on the surface to trace the deformation of the strip of intraplaque hemorrhage; C: stretch–stress curves obtained by computing distance between each pair of markers showing in B; the length, width and thickness of this strip were (mm): 11.01; 1.67 and 1.17, respectively; a grid in the scale in A and B is 1 mm). (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)