About the Authors

Mark O. Wielpütz

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Oliver Weinheimer

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medicine of Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Monika Eichinger

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Wiebel

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Jürgen Biederer

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Claus P. Heußel

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Marcus A. Mall

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus A. Mall, Michael Puderbach

Marcus.Mall@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Translational Pulmonology and Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Puderbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcus A. Mall, Michael Puderbach

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MOW OW ME MW JB HUK CPH MAM MP. Performed the experiments: MOW OW ME CPH MP. Analyzed the data: MOW OW ME MW MAM MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OW MW HUK CPH MAM. Wrote the manuscript: MOW OW ME MW JB HUK CPH MAM MP.