Karius, Philipp
Lembcke, Alexander
Sokolowski, Felix C.
Gandara, Ivan Dario Perez
Rodríguez, Alejandra
Hamm, Bernd
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: 3 May 2018
Revised: 9 July 2018
Accepted: 30 July 2018
First Online: 25 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies:Prof. Dewey has received grant support from the Heisenberg Program of the DFG for a professorship (DE 1361/14-1), the FP7 Program of the European Commission for the randomized 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 from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for meta-analyses (01KG1013, 01KG1110, 01KG1210), 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 a consultant to the editor of Radiology and an associate editor of 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.Prof. Dr. Bernd Hamm has received research grants from GE Healthcare, Schering, Siemens Medical Solutions, and Toshiba Medical Systems. Speakers Bureau: Siemens Medical Solutions and Schering.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
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