Diekhoff, Torsten
Kainberger, Franz
Oleaga, Laura
Dewey, Marc http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4402-2733
Zimmermann, Elke
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Prof. Dewey has received grant support from the Heisenberg Program of the DFG (DE 1361/14-1).)
Article History
Received: 17 December 2019
Revised: 17 March 2020
Accepted: 7 May 2020
First Online: 20 May 2020
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 FP7 Program of the European Commission for the randomized multicenter DISCHARGE trial (603266-2, HEALTH-2012.2.4.-2). He also received grant support from German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Heisenberg Program (DE 1361/14-1), graduate program on quantitative biomedical imaging (BIOQIC, GRK 2260/1), for fractal analysis of myocardial perfusion (DE 1361/18–1), and the Priority Programme Radiomics (DE 1361/19-1 [428222922] and 20-1 [428223139] in SPP 2177/1). He also received funding from the Berlin University Alliance (GC_SC_PC 27) and from the Digital Health Accelerator of the Berlin Institute of Health. Prof. Dewey has received lecture fees from Canon, Guerbet. Prof. Dewey is European Society of Radiology (ESR) Research Chair (2019–2022) and the opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the view of ESR. Prof. Dewey is also the editor of Cardiac CT, published by Springer Nature, and offers hands-on courses on CT imaging (ExternalRef removed). Institutional master research agreements exist with Siemens, General Electric, Philips, and Canon. The terms of these arrangements are managed by the legal department of Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Professor Dewey holds a joint patent with Florian Michallek on dynamic perfusion analysis using fractal analysis (PCT/EP2016/071551). Other authors declared no conflicts of interest.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because no patients were investigated.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because no patients were investigated.
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