About the Authors
- Martina Mosing
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Affiliation Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Andreas D. Waldmann
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Affiliation Swisstom AG, Landquart, Switzerland
- Paul MacFarlane
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Affiliation Langford Veterinary Services, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Samuel Iff
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Affiliation CTU Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Ulrike Auer
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Affiliation Veterinary University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Stephan H. Bohm
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Affiliation Swisstom AG, Landquart, Switzerland
- Regula Bettschart-Wolfensberger
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Affiliation Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- David Bardell
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* E-mail: david.bardell@liverpool.ac.uk
Affiliation School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The research team at VetMedUni ZRH specified the special needs of a dedicated research EIT device for veterinary applications. Such device was finally built by and bought from Swisstom AG at cost price. ADW as EIT expert and SHB as EIT and mechanical ventilation expert were instrumental not only in the design of the physical device but also in the adaptation of the analysis software needed for this study. For this reason these coauthors have been intimately involved in planning, conduct and data analysis of this study as well as in the writing of this manuscript. Therefore, they deserve to be on the list of contributing authors. No conflict of interest became obvious during this intense cooperation and thus the following public statements towards the readers of PLOS ONE should suffice: SHB: Co-founder, employee and Chief Medical Officer of Swisstom AG, inventor of several EIT-related patents and patent applications owned by Swisstom AG and Timpel SA. ADW: Employee and research support engineer of Swisstom AG. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MM ADW PM SI UA SHB RB-W DB. Performed the experiments: MM PM UA RB-W DB. Analyzed the data: ADW SI SB. Wrote the paper: MM PM SHB DB. Interpretation of results: MM ADW PM SI UA SHB RB-W DB.