About the Authors

Bernhard Hametner

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard Hametner, Stephanie Parragh

bernhard.hametner@ait.ac.at

Affiliation Biomedical Systems, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Stephanie Parragh

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard Hametner, Stephanie Parragh

Affiliations Biomedical Systems, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Weber

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria

Siegfried Wassertheurer

Affiliation Biomedical Systems, Center for Health & Bioresources, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Siegfried Wassertheurer is an inventor (not holder) of a patent that is used in the ARCSolver method. The other authors report no conflicts of interest. Patent Name: “Method for determining cardiac output,” Patent Number: “US08920327,” Patent Assignee: ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Inventors: Wassertheurer Siegfried and Mayer Christopher. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BH SP TW SW. Data curation: BH SP TW SW. Formal analysis: BH SP SW. Funding acquisition: BH SW. Investigation: TW. Methodology: SP BH SW. Project administration: SW. Resources: TW. Software: SP BH. Supervision: SW. Validation: BH SP SW TW. Visualization: SP. Writing – original draft: SP BH. Writing – review & editing: SW TW.