Schäfgen, Benedikt
Juskic, Marija
Radicke, Marcus
Hertel, Madeleine
Barr, Richard
Pfob, André
Togawa, Riku
Nees, Juliane
von Au, Alexandra
Fastner, Sarah
Harcos, Aba
Gomez, Christina
Stieber, Anne
Riedel, Fabian
Hennigs, André
Sohn, Christof
Heil, Joerg
Golatta, Michael http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2605-0060
Funding for this research was provided by:
Siemens Healthineers
Article History
Received: 4 July 2020
Revised: 17 November 2020
Accepted: 27 November 2020
First Online: 12 December 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Michael Golatta.
: M. Golatta received payment for lectures from Siemens Ultrasound. R. Barr has equipment grants from Siemens ultrasound, Philips Ultrasound, B and K Ultrasound, and Hitachi-Aloka. He is on the speakers bureau for Philips Ultrasound and Bracoo Diagnostics. He is on the advisory panels of Bracco Diagnostics and Lantheus Medical. He receives royalties from Thieme Publishers. The FUSION-X-US-II prototype device was provided by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Forchheim, Germany. M. Radicke and M. Hertel were the contact persons for technical lead. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • prospective• diagnostic study• performed at one institution