About the Authors

Thomas J. Vogl

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Vogl, Linda J. Riegelbauer

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Linda J. Riegelbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas J. Vogl, Linda J. Riegelbauer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Elsie Oppermann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Michel Kostantin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Hanns Ackermann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Statistics, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Annette Trzmiel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Unit, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt, Germany

Stefan Stein

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Unit, Georg-Speyer-Haus, Frankfurt, Germany

Katrin Eichler

Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Vladimir P. Zharov

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Arkansas Nanomedicine Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Dhruvajyoti Roy

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Advanced Medicine, Inc., Irvine, California, United States of America

Andreas A. Schnitzbauer

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Benjamin Strücker

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

Andreas Pascher

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

Wolf O. Bechstein

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Mazen A. Juratli

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mazen.juratli@ukmuenster.de

Affiliations Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Muenster University Hospital, Muenster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: VPZ is the co-founder of CytoAstra, LLC and DR is an employee of Laboratory for Advanced Medicine, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.