Erley, Jennifer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4855-7698
Breckow, Julia
Roedl, Kevin
Ozga, Ann-Kathrin
Duoerkongjiang, Alidan
de Heer, Geraldine
Schubert, Niklas
Pallasch, Fabian
Burdelski, Christoph
Kluge, Stefan
Yamamura, Jin
Adam, Gerhard
Molwitz, Isabel
Article History
Received: 15 January 2025
Revised: 5 June 2025
Accepted: 26 June 2025
First Online: 6 August 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. med. Jennifer Erley, working at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf.
: One of the authors of this manuscript (JM) is an employee of GE HealthCare. The remaining authors declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: Mrs. Ann-Kathrin Ozga and Mrs. Alidan Duoerkongjiang from the Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf kindly provided statistical advice for this manuscript and performed most statistical analyses.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because the study design was retrospective, and all CT exams were performed for clinical purposes.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained from the local ethics committee (Ärztekammer Hamburg, PV7006-4406-BO-ff).
: This is a follow-up project of a study previously published in European Radiology (doi: 10.1007/s00330-024-10779-4), where we demonstrated the predictive value of muscular DECT FF in an overlapping patient cohort.
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