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Address: Department of Neurosurgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany; German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany.; Department of Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.; Institute of Neuropathology, Heinrich Heine University Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.; Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; UCLA Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Research Center Juelich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich, Germany.; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; Department of Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.; German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany; Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.; Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.; Division of Neuroradiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, USA.; Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.; Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.; Department of NeuroOncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.; Department of Neurosurgery and Division of Neuro-Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.; Department of Neurosurgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany; German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].