About the Authors

Julian Balzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Julian Balzer, Kiara Heuer

Affiliation Department of Trauma and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kiara Heuer

Contributed equally to this work with: Julian Balzer, Kiara Heuer

Affiliation Department of Trauma and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Erhan Demir

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Burn Center, Merheim Hospital Cologne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Köln, Germany

Martin A. Hoffmanns

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Trauma and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Sabrina Baldus

Affiliation Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

Paul C. Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Burn Center, Merheim Hospital Cologne, University of Witten/Herdecke, Köln, Germany

Peter Awakowicz

Affiliation Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

Christoph V. Suschek

Affiliation Department of Trauma and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christian Opländer

christian.oplaender@hhu.de

Affiliation Department of Trauma and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB KH MAH SB CVS CO. Performed the experiments: JB KH ED MAH SB CO. Analyzed the data: PA CVS SB CO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ED PCF. Wrote the paper: JB KH ED MAH CO.