From the *Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
†Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne
‡Philips GmbH, Hamburg
§Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
∥Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Received for publication July 12, 2019; and accepted for publication, after revision, October 7, 2019.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: Kilian Weiss is an employee of Philips GmbH. The Department II of Internal Medicine received research funding from Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Roman-Ulrich Müller received honoraria for scientific talks and counseling from the same companies. Additionally, Roman-Ulrich Müller received support from the Nachwuchsgruppen. NRW program of the Ministry of Science North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests regarding this manuscript. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Florian Siedek and Franziska Grundmann contributed equally to this work.
Ethical standards: Examinations of healthy subjects were approved by the local institutional review board and carried out in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
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Correspondence to: Florian Siedek, MD, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, D-50937 Cologne, Germany. E-mail: florian.siedek@uk-koeln.de.
Online date: December 26, 2019
