Schipper, Pascal https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0114-2421
Bourauel, Leonie
Weinhold, Leonie
Petrak, Michael
Prokosch, Verena
Holz, Frank G. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8019-9272
Liegl, Constance https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9714-2851
Mercieca, Karl
Article History
Received: 8 May 2025
Revised: 11 August 2025
Accepted: 11 September 2025
First Online: 23 September 2025
Competing interests
: The authors did not receive support from any organisation for the submitted work. Authors PS, LB, LW, MP, VP, FGH and CL declare they have no financial interests. Author KM has received speaker honoraria and research support by AOI (Advanced Ophthalmic Innovations) who produce the PGI and FCI (a ZEISS company) who distribute the PGI in Germany, but none of this is related to or influenced the current study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Bonn (091/22). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study and the authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images used in Fig. . The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.