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Authors
Ohno, Yoshiharu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-1084
Fujisawa, Yasuko
Yoshikawa, Takeshi
Seki, Shinichiro
Takenaka, Daisuke
Fujii, Kenji
Ito, Yuya
Kimata, Hirona
Akino, Naruomi
Nagata, Hiroyuki
Nomura, Masahiko
Ueda, Takahiro
Ozawa, Yoshiyuki
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation
Smoking Research Foundation
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ( (JSTS KAKEN No. 20K08037)
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Article History
Received: 4 July 2025
Revised: 4 July 2025
Accepted: 19 July 2025
First Online: 5 September 2025
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD.
: This is a response to a letter to the editor, and no need for informed consent. For the original study, Drs. Nomura, Nagata and Ohno received a research grant from Canon Medical Systems Corporation, which also supported this work financially and technically. Moreover, Dr. Ohno received research grants from the Smoking Research Foundation and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSTS KAKEN no. 20K08037). Ms. Fujisawa, Mr. Fujii, Mr. Ito, Ms. Kimata, and Mr. Akino are employees of Canon Medical Systems Corporation. They did not have control over any of the data used in this study. All authors and the department chair, Prof. Yoshiharu Ohno, who is the first and corresponding author, have agreed to the publication of this study. All data were controlled by Drs. Ohno, Yoshikawa, Seki, Takenaka, Nagata, Nomura, Ueda and Ozawa. Moreover, all statistical analyses were performed by Drs. Yoshikawa, Seki, Takenaka, Nagata, Nomura, Ueda and Ozawa. This information is stated in the main text.
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