About the Authors

Michael Luchtmann

Michael.Luchtmann@med.ovgu.de

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Yvonne Steinecke

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Sebastian Baecke

Affiliation Institute of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Ralf Lützkendorf

Affiliation Institute of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Johannes Bernarding

Affiliation Institute of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Jana Kohl

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Boris Jöllenbeck

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Claus Tempelmann

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Patrick Ragert

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Raimund Firsching

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML YS PR RF CT. Performed the experiments: ML SB RL JK. Analyzed the data: ML JB PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML CT JK BJ. Wrote the paper: ML JB PR RF.