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Article History

Received: 11 March 2022

Accepted: 6 May 2022

First Online: 4 July 2022

Declarations

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: All animal studies were conducted at the Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) of Erlangen-Nürnberg and approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the State Government of Lower Franconia (Approval no. 55.2-2532-2-820). No human tissue or data were used in this study.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: APR and FK are co-inventors together with iThera Medical GmbH, Germany, on an EU patent application (EP 19 163 304.9) relating to a device and a method for analyzing optoacoustic data, an optoacoustic system, and a computer program. APR and FK received travel support from iThera Medical GmbH, Germany. APR and FK report lecture fees from Sanofi Genzyme. FK reports lecture fees from Siemens Healthcare GmbH outside the submitted work. Given his role as Guest Editor of this journal, FK had no involvement in the peer review of the article for which he was an author and had no access to information regarding the peer review. Full responsibility for the peer-review process for this article was delegated to another Editor. NB is an employee of iThera Medical GmbH, Germany. The other authors declare no competing interests.