Yu, Jinyang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-4102
Taskén, Anders Austlid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5618-5556
Flade, Hans Martin
Skogvoll, Eirik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-0708
Berg, Erik Andreas Rye https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6658-7594
Grenne, Bjørnar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2984-6865
Rimehaug, Audun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4803-6083
Kirkeby-Garstad, Idar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2941-6187
Kiss, Gabriel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5024-1548
Aakhus, Svend https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0840-4013
Funding for this research was provided by:
Helse Midt-Norge
Article History
Received: 28 August 2023
Accepted: 3 December 2023
First Online: 27 January 2024
Declarations
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: BG and EARB hold positions at Centre for Innovative Ultrasound Solutions (CIUS) – a Norwegian Research Council center for research-based innovation, where GE HealthCare, Horten, Norway, is one of the industrial partners. The other authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to this manuscript.
: The regional ethics committee (REK number 2019/287) approved the original and all patients provided written informed consent prior to participating. The regional ethics committee confirmed that no ethical approval was needed for analysis of anonymized data for this current study.
: The original study was approved by the regional ethics committee (REK number 2019/287) in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: Informed consent was obtained from all the patients. This report did not contain any personal information that could lead to patient identification.
: All patients provided written informed consent prior to participating.