About the Authors

Felix Gremse

Affiliation Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Oliver Krone

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Mirko Thamm

Affiliation Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Fabian Kiessling

Affiliation Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

René Hany Tolba

Affiliation Laboratory Animal Science, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Siegfried Rieger

Affiliation Wildlife Biology, Management and Hunting Practice, HNE Eberswalde, Eberswalde, Germany

Carl Gremse

carl.gremse@hnee.de

Affiliation Wildlife Biology, Management and Hunting Practice, HNE Eberswalde, Eberswalde, Germany

Competing Interests

Felix Gremse is founder and owner of Gremse-IT, a startup company that offers software and services for medical image analysis in cooperation with Philips Research and the Department for Experimental Molecular Imaging. Felix Gremse and Fabian Kiessling received funding by Philips Research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FG CG SR. Performed the experiments: FG CG. Analyzed the data: FG CG MT RT OK FK SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG CG SR. Wrote the paper: FG. Designed the software used in analysis: FG. Supervised the study: FK RT CG SR. Corrected the manuscript: CG OK RT SR MT FK.