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Jordan W Squair1, Maxime Berney1, Mayte Castro Jimenez1

  • 1From the Center for Neuroprosthetics and the Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) (J.W.S., N.H., R.D., S.A., A.P., S.H.-C., G.D., L.A., G.C., J.B.), the Department of Clinical Neuroscience (J.W.S., N.H., R.D., S.A., A.P., S.H.-C., G.D., L.A., G.C., J.B.), the Service of Neurosurgery (J.W.S., G.C., J.B.), the Service of Nephrology and Hypertension (M.B., G.W.), the Service of Neurology (M.C.J., J.F.B.), the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (F.B.), and the Service of Anesthesiology (P.S.), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (NeuroRestore), EPFL-CHUV-UNIL (J.W.S., M.B., N.H., R.D., S.A., A.P., S.H.-C., G.D., L.A., G.C., J.B.), and the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, CHUV (G.A.) - all in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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