About the Authors

Pooyan Aliuos

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Hannover, Germany

Jennifer Schulze

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Hannover, Germany

Markus Schomaker

Affiliation Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

Günter Reuter

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stefan R. O. Stolle

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Darja Werner

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Tammo Ripken

Affiliations Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Hannover, Germany, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Hannover, Germany

Athanasia Warnecke

Warnecke.Athanasia@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW TL TR. Performed the experiments: AW DW PA MS JS. Analyzed the data: AW PA MS JS GR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW TR TL SROS GR. Wrote the paper: AW SROS MS DW JS TR TL PA. Interpretation of data: SROS AW JS MS PA GR.