About the Authors

Sarah Feger

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Rief

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Elke Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Peter Martus

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Joanne Désirée Schuijf

Affiliation Toshiba Medical Systems Europe B.V., Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Jörg Blobel

Affiliation Toshiba Medical Systems Europe B.V., Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Felicitas Richter

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Documentation, University Hospital of Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Marc Dewey

dewey@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Charité Medical School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Prof. Dewey has received grant support from the Heisenberg Program of the DFG for a professorship (DE 1361/14-1), the FP7 Program of the European Commission for the randomized multicenter DISCHARGE trial (603266-2, HEALTH-2012.2.4.-2), the European Regional Development Fund (20072013 2/05, 20072013 2/48), the German Heart Foundation/German Foundation of Heart Research (F/23/08, F/27/10), the Joint Program from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for meta-analyses (01KG1013, 01KG1110, 01KG1110), GE Healthcare, Bracco, Guerbet, and Toshiba Medical Systems. The CARS-320 study has received grants from Bracco. Prof. Dewey has received lecture fees from Toshiba Medical Systems, Guerbet, Cardiac MR Academy Berlin, and Bayer (Schering-Berlex). Prof. Dewey is a consultant to Guerbet and one of the principal investigators of multi-center studies (CORE-64 and 320) on coronary CT angiography sponsored by Toshiba Medical Systems. He is also the editor of Coronary CT Angiography and Cardiac CT, both published by Springer, and offers hands-on workshops on cardiovascular imaging (www.ct-kurs.de). Prof. Dewey is an associate editor of Radiology and European Radiology. Dr. Jörg Blobel and Dr. Joanne Schuijf are full-time employees of Toshiba Medical Systems Europe. Institutional master research agreements exist with Siemens Medical Solutions, Philips Medical Systems, and Toshiba Medical Systems. The terms of these arrangements are managed by the legal department of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article. The authors have full control control of all primary data. All funders (TMS, Guerbet, CMR Bayer, Siemens) provided support in form of salaries, but did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the “author contributions`section”. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Two employees from Toshiba Medical System (JB and JS) gave their input into the manuscript and, due to that, are listed as authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD MR EZ. Performed the experiments: MD MR EZ SF. Analyzed the data: SF PM FR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF MD MR EZ PM FR JB JS. Wrote the paper: SF MD MR EZ JS JB.