Rief, Matthias
Hartmann, Lisa
Geisel, Dominik
Richter, Felicitas
Brenner, Winfried
Dewey, Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4402-2733
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE 1361/14-1)
Article History
Received: 25 July 2016
Revised: 29 November 2017
Accepted: 5 December 2017
First Online: 30 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Dewey.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies.Prof. Dewey has received grant support for the current study (DE 1361/14-1), the FP7 Program of the European Commission for the randomised multicentre DISCHARGE trial (603266-2, HEALTH-2012.2.4.-2), the European Regional Development Fund (20072013 2/05, 20072013 2/48), the German Heart Foundation/German Foundation of Heart Research (F/23/08, F/27/10), the Joint Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for meta-analyses (01KG1013, 01KG1110, 01KG1110), GE Healthcare, Bracco, Guerbet, and Toshiba Medical Systems. Prof. Dewey has received lecture fees from Toshiba Medical Systems, Guerbet, Cardiac MR Academy Berlin, and Bayer (Schering-Berlex). Prof. Dewey is a consultant to Guerbet and one of the principal investigators of multicentre studies (CORE-64 and 320) on coronary CT angiography sponsored by Toshiba Medical Systems. He is also the editor of Coronary CT Angiography and Cardiac CT, both published by Springer, and offers hands-on workshops on cardiovascular imaging (ExternalRef removed). Prof. Dewey is an associate editor of Radiology and European Radiology. Institutional master research agreements exist with Siemens Medical Solutions, Philips Medical Systems and Toshiba Medical Systems. The terms of these arrangements are managed by the legal department of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.All other authors: None.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: • prospective• clinical study• performed at one institution