Hasegawa, Tomoko
Akagi, Tadamichi
Hangai, Masanori
Yamada, Hiroshi
Suda, Kenji
Kimura, Yugo
Nakanishi, Hideo
Ikeda, Hanako Ohashi
Yoshimura, Nagahisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25462713)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
Article History
Received: 5 May 2015
Revised: 30 September 2015
Accepted: 26 October 2015
First Online: 18 November 2015
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in Japan provided financial support in the form of Innovative Techno-Hub for Integrated Medical Bio-Imaging of the Project for Developing Innovation Systems. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) also provided financial support in the form of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (25462713). The sponsors had no role in the design or conduct of this research. No funding was received for this research.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study adhered to the tenets of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki its later amendments, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board and the Ethics Committee of Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.