Segal, Neil A.
Bergin, John
Kern, Andrew
Findlay, Christian
Anderson, Donald D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T35HL007485)
Article History
Received: 15 September 2016
Revised: 21 October 2016
Accepted: 17 November 2016
First Online: 1 December 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: This work was supported by a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant (T35HL007485). The sponsor played no role in the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Research reported in this manuscript was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number P50AR055533. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
: The corresponding author is named as an inventor on a patent application for the positioning frame used in this study, but has neither intellectual property rights nor financial rights to that patent and has neither been employed nor received honoraria, stock options, or other sources of financial support in relation to this work. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.
: 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.