Acknowledgements
THORACIC
The authors are indebted to Dr. Ori Haberfeld, Dr. Yaron Saiet, Dr. Eran Gilad from Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel and to Dr. Yana Kogan, Dr. Einat Fireman Klain, Dr. Sonia Shneer and Dr. Raya Cohen from Pulmonary Division, Faculty of Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Israel for their help in recruiting suitable subjects for the clinical study and explaining to them the research study and its risks and signing an informed consent form in accordance with the Helsinki Convention. The authors thank Gratzia Luzon, Irena Shahar and Mori Hay Levy for their help in coordinating the clinical studies.