Funding for this research was provided by:
German Research Foundation (GRK2260)
Article History
Received: 18 March 2019
Revised: 13 July 2019
Accepted: 8 August 2019
First Online: 29 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Nader Aldoj is a PhD student supported by a graduate program of the German Research Foundation (GRK2260, BIOQIC). Prof. Dewey (a PI of BIOQIC funded by the German Research Foundation, GRK2260) has also received grant support from the Heisenberg Program of the DFG for a professorship (DE 1361/14-1) and the FP7 Program of the European Commission for the randomized multi-center DISCHARGE trial (603266-2, HEALTH-2012.2.4.-2). Prof. Dewey is a cardiac section editor of <i>European Radiology</i>. Prof. Dewey has received lecture fees from Toshiba Medical Systems, Guerbet, Cardiac MR Academy Berlin, and Bayer (Schering-Berlex). Tobias Penzkofer received research support from Siemens Healthcare and Philips Healthcare. Tobias Penzkofer received grant support from the Berlin Institute of Health within the Clinician Scientist Program. Outside of the current work, Tobias Penzkofer is involved in clinical trials with AGO, Aprea AB, Astellas Pharma Global Inc., AstraZeneca, Celgene, Genmab A/S, Incyte Corporation, Lion Biotechnologies, Inc., Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Morphotec Inc., MSD Tesaro Inc., and Roche. Institutional master research agreements exist with Siemens Medical Solutions, Philips Medical Systems, and Toshiba Medical Systems. The terms of these arrangements are managed by the legal department of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The other authors declared no conflicts of interest.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: No consent was necessary. The dataset is publicly available.
: No ethical approval was necessary.
: • Retrospective• Performed at one institution