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Received: 21 July 2025

Revised: 5 October 2025

Accepted: 29 October 2025

First Online: 24 December 2025

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD.

: Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD and Masahiko Nomura, MD, PhD received a research grant from the Canon Medical Systems Corporation, which also financially and technically supported this work. Ms. Natsuka Yazawa, Ms. Maiko Shinohara, Ms. Kaori Yamamoto, Mr. Yuichiro Sano, Mr. Masato Ikedo, Mr. Masanori Ozaki, and Mr. Masao Yui are employees of the Canon Medical Systems Corporation who had no control over any data or information submitted for publication or any control over any part of the data or information included in this study.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board of Fujita Health University Hospital. This study was also compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which waived the requirement for written informed consent.

: This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board of Fujita Health University Hospital. This study was also compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which waived the requirement for written informed consent. Seven of the authors (Ms. Natsuka Yazawa., Ms. Maiko Shinohara, Ms. Kaori Yamamoto, Mr. Yuichiro Sano, Mr. Masato Ikedo, Mr. Masanori Ozaki and Mr. Masao Yui) are employees of Canon Medical Systems Corporation, but do not have control over any of the data and information submitted for publication or over which data and information were to be included in this study. All the data were controlled and statistically analyzed by Dr. Yoshiharu Ohno, Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Takahiro Ueda, Masahiko Nomura, Takeshi Yoshikawa and Daisuke Takenaka.

: The cohort assessed in this study was not previously published.

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