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Acknowledgments throughout the data collection. The work was supported by a Clinical
The authors would like to thank the interventionalists and trainees for Doctoral Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO,
willingly giving up their time to participate in this study, and the organisers Belgium), and grants from Mentice (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Boston
of the international meetings for accommodating us. The authors are Scientific Corporation (Natick, Nanterre, France). However, they did not
extremely grateful to Mr Robert Brightwell, Mr Andrew Choong, Kevin interfere in the study design, data collection, analysis, or interpretation of
O’Dononghue, and Mr Simon Neequaye for their valuable assistance the data, nor in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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