About the Authors

Regine Kluge

Regine.Kluge@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Lidia Chavdarova

Affiliation Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, National Hospital for Active Treatment in Oncology, Sofia, Bulgaria

Martha Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Carsten Kobe

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Bogdan Malkowski

Affiliation Dept. of PET and Molecular Imaging, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium MedicumBydgoszcz, Poland

Françoise Montravers

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hopital Tenon, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Lars Kurch

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Georgi

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Markus Dietlein

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

W. Hamish Wallace

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jonas Karlen

Affiliation Karolinska University Hospital, Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Ana Fernández-Teijeiro

Affiliation Pediatric Oncology Unit, Hospitales Universitarios Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain

Michaela Cepelova

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Motol and 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Lorrain Wilson

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, Ireland

Eva Bergstraesser

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Oncology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Osama Sabri

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Christine Mauz-Körholz

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology, University of Halle, Halle/Saale, Germany

Dieter Körholz

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Oncology, University of Halle, Halle/Saale, Germany

Dirk Hasenclever

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK WHW JK AF MC LW EB CMK DK DH. Performed the experiments: LC MH CK BM FM MD. Analyzed the data: RK LK TG DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK MH BM WHW JK AF MC LW EB CMK DK. Wrote the paper: RK LC MH CK BM FM LK TG MD WHW JK AF MC LW EB OS CMK DK DH. Designed the software used: RK LK TG DH. Performed statistical analysis: DH RK.