Nicklas, Julia Y.
Beckmann, David
Killat, Jasper
Petzoldt, Martin
Reuter, Daniel A.
Rösch, Thomas
Saugel, Bernd http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-0722
Article History
Received: 10 November 2017
Accepted: 14 March 2018
First Online: 20 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JYN and BS received refunds of travel expenses from CNSystems Medizintechnik AG (Graz, Austria). BS received honoraria for giving lectures from CNSystems Medizintechnik AG (Graz, Austria). All other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. CNSystems Medizintechnik AG (Graz, Austria) provided the technical equipment needed for this study. The company was not involved in the study design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
: This method comparison study was reviewed and approved by the ethics committee (Ethikkomission der Ärztekammer Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.