Quantitative differentiation of minimal-fat angiomyolipomas from renal cell carcinomas using grating-based x-ray phase-contrast computed tomography: An ex vivo study

• Lorenz Birnbacher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lorenz Birnbacher, Margarita Braunagel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lorenz.birnbacher@tum.de

  Affiliations Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine & Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-2166

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• Margarita Braunagel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lorenz Birnbacher, Margarita Braunagel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany

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• Marian Willner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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• Mathias Marschner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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• Fabio De Marco,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany, Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Trieste TS, Italy

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• Manuel Viermetz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7332-1900

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• Sigrid Auweter,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany

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• Susan Notohamiprodjo,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany, Department of Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine & Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-1245

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• Katharina Hellbach,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, München, Germany

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• Mike Notohamiprodjo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany

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• Michael Staehler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany

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• Daniela Pfeiffer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine & Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany, Institute of Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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• Maximilian F. Reiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, München, Germany

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• Franz Pfeiffer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine & Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany, Institute of Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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• Julia Herzen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Biomedical Physics, School of Natural Sciences & Department of Physics, Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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