About the Authors

Thomas Walenda

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Walenda, Thomas Stiehl

Affiliation Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Thomas Stiehl

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Walenda, Thomas Stiehl

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center of Scientific Computing (IWR), Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hanna Braun

Affiliation Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Julia Fröbel

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anthony D. Ho

Affiliation Department of Medicine V, Medical Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Schroeder

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Tamme W. Goecke

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Björn Rath

Affiliation Department for Orthopedics, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Ulrich Germing

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anna Marciniak-Czochra

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center of Scientific Computing (IWR), Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Wagner

wwagner@ukaachen.de

Affiliation Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW TS HB AMC WW. Performed the experiments: TW TSt HB JF TSc. Analyzed the data: TW TSt HB JF TSc. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADH TWG BR UG AMC. Wrote the paper: TW TSt AMC WW.