About the Authors
- Christoph Schürmann
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* E-mail: schuermann@vrc.uni-frankfurt.de
Affiliations Institut für Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Fachbereich Medizin der Goethe-Universität, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany
- Felix Gremse
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Affiliation Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Clinic Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Hanjoong Jo
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Affiliation Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Fabian Kiessling
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Affiliation Experimental Molecular Imaging, University Clinic Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Ralf P. Brandes
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Affiliations Institut für Kardiovaskuläre Physiologie, Fachbereich Medizin der Goethe-Universität, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner site RheinMain, Frankfurt, Germany
Competing Interests
Felix Gremse is founder and owner of Gremse-IT, a startup company that offers software and services for medical image analysis in cooperation with Philips Research and the Department for Experimental Molecular Imaging. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CS FG HJ RB. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: CS FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG FK RB. Wrote the paper: CS FG HJ FK RB. Designed the software used in Analysis: FG.