Krüger, Marie T.
Naseri, Yashar
Cavalloni, Fabian
Reinacher, Peter C.
Kägi, Georg
Weber, Johannes
Brogle, Deborah
Bozinov, Oliver
Hägele-Link, Stefan
Brugger, Florian
Article History
Received: 13 July 2020
Accepted: 2 September 2020
First Online: 11 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Related to this work: MTK has received travel funding from Boston Scientific (manufacturer of the electrodes used in this study). She is a consultant for Brainlab (manufacturer of the planning software used in this study). PCR has received occasional honoraria and travel support from Brainlab AG; he is a consultant for Boston Scientific. The companies had no involvements in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data nor in writing, editing, or submitting the manuscript.Unrelated to this work: MTK has received travel funding from Medtronic. FC holds shares in varying amounts of different companies in medically related fields as a private investor (Amyra Biotech AG, Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA). JW has a partnership with Siemens Healthineers and Artis Q. SHL has received travel funding from AbbVie, Switzerland. FB has received a scholarship by the Baasch-Medicus Foundation, Zurich, and a research grant by the KSSG Forschungskommission.
: The clinical characteristics and scan-related outcome parameters were obtained as part of the patients’ routine care. All data was stored on an in-house database that was approved by the local ethics committee. All patients gave their written informed consent to be included in the database.