Mengling, Veit
Bert, Christoph
Perrin, Rosalind
Masitho, Siti
Weissmann, Thomas
Mansoorian, Sina
Siavooshhaghighi, Hadi
Janka, Rolf
Doussin, Sylvain
Habatsch, Melanie
Fietkau, Rainer
Putz, Florian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3966-2872
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Article History
Received: 24 April 2020
Accepted: 29 September 2020
First Online: 25 October 2020
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: V. Mengling, C. Bert, R. Perrin, S. Masitho, T. Weissmann, S. Mansoorian, H. Siavooshhaghighi, R. Janka,S. Doussin, M. Habatsch, R. Fietkau, and F. Putz declare that they have no competing interests. A dedicated MRI scanner for radiotherapy treatment planning was implemented in the Imaging Science Institute Erlangen in cooperation of the Department of Radiotherapy and Institute of Radiology of the University Medical Center Erlangen and Siemens Healthineers. The Imaging Science Institute Erlangen is funded by Siemens Healthineers to facilitate academic and clinical cooperation. The corresponding author had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.
: All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All patients had provided written informed consent for treatment. For this retrospective study, the requirement to provide written consent for inclusion into the analysis was waived based on local legislation (BayKrG Art. 27 (4)).