Funding for this research was provided by:
Focused Ultrasound Foundation (325)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2019
Revised: 9 December 2019
Accepted: 3 January 2020
First Online: 16 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests, neither financial nor non-financial. This research was supported by the FUS Foundation, Charlottesville, VA, USA (FUS325) and the SRH Waldklinikum Gera, Germany.
: All surgical procedures were performed at the clinic for thoracic and vascular surgery of the SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera, Germany. The use of human tissue for this study was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical Association of Thuringia (TLLV) and patients were informed prior to surgery. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.