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Article History

Received: 14 July 2025

Revised: 23 November 2025

Accepted: 24 November 2025

First Online: 23 December 2025

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Tatjana Dell.

: Dr. Bernhard Schmidt is an employee of Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Forchheim, Germany. His role was limited to providing technical support for the imaging software. Siemens Healthcare GmbH had no role in the study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of the results, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. All other authors (Tatjana Dell, Verena Tischler, Dario Zocholl, Narine Mesropyan, Alice Margarida Jacob, Johannes Chang, Claus Christian Pieper, Alexander Isaak, Patrick Kupczyk, Carsten Meyer, Julian Luetkens, Christian Strassburg, Christian Jansen, and Daniel Kuetting) declare that they have no competing interests.

: Statistical analysis was performed by Dario Zocholl with support from Narine Mesropyan. Both are authors of this manuscript and have statistical expertise.

: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.

: This prospective study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved by the responsible institutional review board (Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, application number 254/22).

: No study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported.

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