About the Authors

Andreas Rudolph

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Michael Teske

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Sabine Illner

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Volker Kiefel

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Ernst-Heydemann-Strasse 6, D-18057, Rostock, Germany

Katrin Sternberg

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Niels Grabow

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Andreas Wree

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical Center, Gertrudenstrasse 9, D-18057, Rostock, Germany

Marina Hovakimyan

marina.hovakimyan@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Rostock University Medical Center, Friedrich-Barnewitz-Strasse 4, D-18119, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR KS NG MH AW. Performed the experiments: AR MT SI VK. Analyzed the data: MH AR AW KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS NG MT SI VK. Wrote the paper: AR MH KS MT SI AW.