About the Authors
- Jonas Dörner
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Rafael Struck
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Sebastian Zimmer
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Christine Peigney
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinical Center Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Georg Daniel Duerr
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinical Center Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Oliver Dewald
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Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinical Center Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Se-Chan Kim
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Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Daniela Malan
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Affiliation Institute of Physiology I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Thierry Bettinger
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Affiliation Bracco Suisse SA, Geneva Research Center, Plan-les Ouates, Switzerland
- Georg Nickenig
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Alexander Ghanem
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* E-mail: ghanem@uni-bonn.de
Affiliation Department of Medicine/Cardiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interest. Thierry Bettinger is employed by Bracco Suisse SA and provided the commercially available micro bubbles (BR1) for this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Revised the manuscript: JD RS SZ CP GDD OD SCK DM TB GN AG. Conceived and designed the experiments: GN AG. Performed the experiments: JD RS CP GDD AG. Analyzed the data: JD RS SZ OD DM AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP OD SCK DM TB AG. Wrote the paper: JD AG.