About the Authors

Anick Nater

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Allan R. Martin

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Arjun Sahgal

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada

David Choi

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael G. Fehlings

michael.fehlings@uhn.ca

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Michael Fehlings has consulting agreements with Zimmer Biomet, InVivo Therapeutics, and Pfizer. Dr. Arjun Saghal has given educational seminars with Medtronic, Elekta AB, Accuray Inc., and Varian medical systems; acted in a consulting or advisory role with Varian medical systems, Hoffmann-La Roche Limited; has been awarded research grants from Elekta AB; has received travel accommodations and expenses from Medtronic, Elekta and Varian; and belongs to the Elekta MR Linac Research Consortium. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MGF AN. Data curation: AN. Formal analysis: AN AM AS DC. Investigation: AN AM. Methodology: MGF AN AM DC AS. Project administration: MGF. Resources: MGF. Supervision: MGF. Validation: MGF AM AS DC. Visualization: AN. Writing – original draft: AN. Writing – review & editing: MGF AN AM AS DC.