Ille, Sebastian
Baumgart, Lea
Obermueller, Thomas
Meyer, Bernhard
Krieg, Sandro M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4050-1531
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität München
Article History
Received: 12 April 2021
Revised: 30 July 2021
Accepted: 24 August 2021
First Online: 14 September 2021
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest regarding the materials used or the results presented in this study. All authors declare no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. BM received honoraria, consulting fees, and research grants from Medtronic (Meerbusch, Germany), Icotec AG (Altstätten, Switzerland), and Relievant Medsystems Inc., (Sunnyvale, CA, USA), honoraria, and research grants from Ulrich Medical (Ulm, Germany), honoraria and consulting fees from Spineart Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) and DePuy Synthes (West Chester, PA, USA), and royalties from Spineart Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany). SK is consultant for Ulrich medical (Ulm, Germany and Brainlab AG (Munich, Germany) and received honoraria from Nexstim Plc (Helsinki, Finland), Spineart Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany), Medtronic (Meerbusch, Germany) and Carl Zeiss Meditec (Oberkochen, Germany). BM received research grants and is consultant for Brainlab AG (Munich, Germany). SI is consultant for Brainlab AG (Munich, Germany). All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest regarding the materials used or the results presented in this study. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. This trial was funded entirely by institutional grants from the Department of Neurosurgery, Technical University of Munich, Germany, School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar.
: The study was approved by the local ethics board (registration number: 159/16S). The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.