About the Authors

Dominik Herzog

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Alexander Poellinger

Affiliation Institute of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Felix Doellinger

Affiliation Institute of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Dirk Schuermann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Bettina Temmesfeld-Wollbrueck

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Vera Froeling

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13553, Berlin, Germany

Nils F. Schreiter

Affiliation Institute of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Konrad Neumann

Affiliation Institute for Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Hippenstiel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Suttorp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Ralf-Harto Hubner

ralf-harto.huebner@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Ralf-Harto Huebner has received lecture fees for educational activities from Pulmonx. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH AP SH RHH. Performed the experiments: DH AP FD DS RHH. Analyzed the data: DH AP FD VF NFS RHH KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BTW SH NS RHH. Wrote the paper: DH DS VF SH NS RHH.