About the Authors

Tobias Consmüller

Affiliation Epionics Medical GmbH, Potsdam, Germany

Antonius Rohlmann

Antonius.Rohlmann@charite.de

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Daniel Weinland

Affiliation Epionics Medical GmbH, Potsdam, Germany

Claudia Druschel

Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Georg N. Duda

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

William R. Taylor

Affiliation Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

T. Consmüller is, and D. Weinland was an employee of Epionics Medical GmbH, a commercial funder of this research. A. Rohlmann was a consultant of Epionics Medical GmbH. These relationships do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR GND WRT. Performed the experiments: TC CD. Analyzed the data: TC AR DW WRT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD GND. Wrote the paper: TC AR DW CD GND WRT. Statistics: DW TC.